Films by Michael Weihrauch

Germany 2013, 86 min
by Eva Wolf

This documentry allows an insight into the mental and emotional challenges the staff of an intensive care unit is facing on a daily basis, dealing with decisions that have far reaching consequences for their patients. Often it is the staff of the intensive care unit - the doctors and nurses - that are confronted with difficult ethical questions that their patients haven't yet had to consider. We regret, at this time, the film is only availiable in german Questions with no easy answers. How do we want to die, and how do we want to live?

Germany 2009, 58 min
by Beatrice Möller

In the new South Africa everyone is equal: Blacks, Whites, Indians and Coloureds. On a train journey on the Shosholoza Express they encounter fragments of their past. Twenty years after the end of apartheid rule, everything has changed but nothing is as it should be. Travelling through modern cities, dilapidated townships and vast open spaces, the film tells a story of inner boundaries, prejudices still not overcome, unfulfilled hopes and simmering conflicts. Everyone is travelling on the same train, but not in the same compartment.

Germany 2009, 810 min
by Detlef Gumm, Hans-Georg Ullrich

Detlef Gumm and Hans-Georg Ullrich began working on their long-term observational documentary BERLIN - ECKE BUNDESPLATZ twenty-four years ago. Their plan was to make a series of short and longerfilms documenting the fortunes of several inhabitants of an ordinary Berlin neighbourhood as theymoved towards the year 2000. The protagonists were a typical cross-section of people living in an oldquarter of West-Berlin, and so, in their film, widows, a high-flying lawyer, drop-outs, owners of smallbusinesses and a single mother became chroniclers of their Wilmersdorf world.These films are, like their authors and the people portrayed in the films, a part of this area of Berlin.BERLIN - ECKE BUNDESPLATZ is a declaration of love to generations of people who have never stoppedstruggling and dreaming.The titles of the Episodes are©2009MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERSTHE DROPOUTSIT IS BEAUTIFUL TO BE YOUNGTHE KOEPCKE GANGTHE YILMAZ-CLAN©2013A BAKER ON THE BREAD-LINELIFE OF LEISURECHIMNEY SWEEPSHAPPY FAMILY