Films by Nicole Leykauf

Germany 2022, 78 min
by Elizaveta Snagovskaia

In Germany and Russia people drink the same amount: more than 10 liters of pure alcohol per capita and year. Two Germans and two Russians are 'functioning' young alcoholics. All four are trying to quit drinking. Drinking has become so fused with our everyday life that we have become blind to it: As long as we function, we drink. As long as we drink, we function. How can we break this mechanism?

Germany 2019, 75 min
by Jonas Spriestersbach

The special thing about this animal film: There are no animals to be seen. Instead, the film shows humans who approach the animalistic existence via meditations, robots, or furry costumes. What kind of being is the human to consider animals so deeply?

Germany 2019, 77 min
by Nina Wesemann

Marie, Arthur, Emine, and Christian are ten years old. They live in Berlin. Strolling through the city with them, we experience their freedom as well as first notions of opposition. The film dips into the last days of childhood, into a 'Paradise Lost' nobody can save or lose.

Germany 2016, 52 min
by Christian Pähler, Lilian Dammnn

Filmed over five years, and featuring interviews with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the newly elected Prime Minister of Tibet and key Chinese political thinkers, this fascinating film gives looks in-depth at the challenges facing Tibet today.As the 14th Dalai Lama celebrates his 80th birthday many Tibetans, on both sides of the border, are concerned about the future. As religious leader of the Tibetan Buddhists, and political leader of the Tibetan government in exile, he has spent decades travell

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 2015, 86 min
by Pawel Siczek

The film HALF THE TOWN tells the story of Jewish photographer and municipal politician Chaim Berman. Before World War Two broke out, he was actively engaged in a peaceful coexistence of Poles, Jews, and Germans in his Polish hometown. But before too long, his cosmopolitan attitude turned into a personal disaster… The elaborate animation - inspired by the works of painter Marc Chagall - brings a long since forgotten world back to life. Photographer Berman’s legacy of approximately 10,000 portrait

2009, 88 min
by Angela Graas - Castor

They're on their way to the Southern Ocean on a special mission. A self-sufficient group, determined to make our world a slightly better place to live in for man and animal. Almost 40 young people from all over the world. Welded together for three months on a 70-metre-long piece of steel civilization … as Japan intendes to kill another 1000 whales south of the 60th parallel.

Germany 2008, 52 min
by Angela Graas - Castor

They're on their way to the Southern Ocean on a special mission. A self-sufficient group, determined to make our world a slightly better place to live in for man and animal. Almost 40 young people from all over the world. Welded together for three months on a 70-metre-long piece of steel civilization … as Japan intendes to kill another 1000 whales south of the 60th parallel.