Films by Michael Truckenbrodt

Germany 2023, 50 min
by Christian Zipfel

Far away, in the middle of the Namibian wasteland, on former German-colonial soil. Due to a lack of prospects, some Namibians dig for gemstones in illegal, dangerous mines. The transmedia series THE SOIL OF THE NAMIB tells their story in four documentary parts: A short film DREAMS, which follows three workers on their search, and three complementary 360° episodes. LAND deals with the issue of land theft and the identity of the local people. WRAITHS recounts the start of the diamond rush in Namib

Germany 2011, 57 min
by Ronen Abas

A group of elderly widows in Haifa, Israel, meet a few times a week to gamble their money in a game of poker. Over the 40 years they have been playing together, none of the women remarried. Now, in their older days, what once was friendship has slowly turned into a love-hate relationship. As the son of one of the players, filmmaker Ronen Abas has known the women since his childhood. In the film, he looks into the history of the group, their relationship with each other and their individual life

Germany 2011
by Milan Miletic

It was meant to be a holiday trip to Belgrade for Brice Taton and his friends to support their football team Toulouse playing against Partizan, but it ended with his murder. Unaware of the climate of lynch 72 hours prior the Belgrade Gay Pride 2009, Brice and his friends were enjoying the afternoon in a public cafe when they were attacked by a gang of hooligans. Brice was thrown of a 10 meter high staircase and died two weeks later. Shortly after this violent act the Pride Parade was cancelled.