Films by Niclas Reed Middleton

Germany 2017, 90 min
by Simone Catharina Gaul

Once the East German village Golzow was famous for Winfried Junge's longterm-filmproject "die Kinder von Golzow". But the fame faded with time: Today there are 857 inhabitants, a small bakery, a takeaway, a primary school with too little children and a movie museum with too little visitors. Only the many memories remind people of better times."Refugees are an opportunity", mayor Frank Schütz states – and that is why two syrian families have now found their shelter in Golzow. Therefore the school

Germany 2017, 58 min
by Ilja Stahl

16-year-old Tebogo and 15-year-old Karabo live in Johannesburg's central district Hillbrow. In underground car parks, on high rise roofs and in nocturnal streets they dawdle away the time, somewhere between boredom and energy to burn.Writer and director Ilja Stahl's graduation film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne was supported by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and shot entirely in Johannesburg/South Africa."Touching Concrete" celebrates its world premiere at the DOK Leipzig Filmfestival 2

Germany 2016, 87 min
by Philip Gnadt, Mickey Yamine

Gaza – a strip of land with a population of 1.7 million citizens, wedged between Israel and Egypt and isolated from the outside world. 26 miles of coastline with a harbor that no longer services ships. Hardly anything gets into Gaza and even less gets out. The young generation is growing up with very little perspective - occupied and jobless. But against this background there is a small movement.Our protagonists are part of the surf community of Gaza City. Round about 40 surfboards have been bro

2008, 86 min

Narmila is on the Iranian Women's national football team, they’re dedicated, they train, they love football, but they have one problem, they are not allowed to compete.Under Iranian law only men can participate in or watch a sporting match.When Marlene, the left back on the Berlin-Kreuzberg women’s team, hears of this, she decides to do something about it. She spends the next year in a difficult struggle with the Iranian government to get a match arranged between her team and the Iranian women’s