Films by Nicolas Humbert

Germany 2018, 100 min
by Peter Heller (c/o filmkraft)

The film tells from the personal perspective of the filmmaker the history of the Munich district cinema 'Maxim'. The Maxim was centre of his private and professional life. The cinema had been managed for 40 years by the lone fighter Sigi who persistently opposed all trends. The Maxim was a venue, catalyst and home of political documentary and a birthplace of the Munich International Documentary Film Festival. But the political weapon "Maxim" had become dull time by time. The old cinema corner lo

Germany, Switzerland 2016, 108 min
by Nicolas Humbert

Urban gardeners in post-industrial Detroit. The American Indian activist Milo Yellow Hair and his agricultural project and the guerilla gardener Maurice Maggi who has been changing the face of Zurich.WILD PLANTS catches with sensitivity the gestures of those who are making ecological utopias real.

Germany 2001
by Jens Schanze

By 2045, twenty localities in Germany will be resettled because of brown coal open pit mining. The film Waste Land follows the inhabitants of three villages in the Rhenish coal-mining district during their last years in their old home and documents how an entire region prepares for its collective relocation. “I wish you much joy planning your new house!” That is what the director of the Rheinbraun AG calls out to several dozen people in the gym of a small town near Cologne. Floor plans for one-