Films by Moritz Bundschuh

2022, 90 min
by Matthias Heeder

Inflation is hitting with full force: Even in rich industrialized countries, many people suddenly don’t even have enough money to feed themselves properly or pay their bills. "Inflation is a kind of power struggle," says economic historian Adam Tooze. "Who's going to be able to pay the rising prices, and who's going to be the loser?" Why is inflation now suddenly an issue again in Europe or the United States? What are central banks doing about it? Our film shows which mechanisms have contributed

Germany 2021, 98 min
by Axel Brüggemann

Richard Wagner is more than just music, he is a social phenomenon, a question of belief, and the Bayreuth Festival is the world's most important mecca for the cult of Wagner. GLOBAL WAGNER is a cheeky trip around the world of Wagnerians, from Venice to Latvia, Israel, Abu Dhabi and the US all the way to Japan – in between passion and music, politics, culture, glamour, rehearsals and bratwurst. How, to until this day, did such massive hype and such a cult following develop all over the world arou

2012, 104 min
by Jörg Bundschuh, Matthias Heeder, Nigel McCarthy

From Bazar to Wall Street:After the financial crisis and the events of the Arab Spring the Western world has been exposed to an alternative, religion-influenced system of economics called Islamic Finance. Indeed, in the shadows of our conventional financial system, Islamic states have developed another option that appears to have been less affected by the crises of recent years. But what is really behind this concept, how did it emerge, and what makes it different from the standard system? From