Films by Nikolai von Graevenitz

2023, 84 min
by Stéphanie Barbey, Luc Peter

Carlos was a child when he arrived from Mexico with his parents and brothers, immigrating to Chicago in 1993. 30 years later, Carlos has yet to return to the country from which he comes. He cannot leave the United States – or even Illinois – with the certainty that he would be allowed to return. Every time he leaves his home, he fears an encounter with the police, who could deport him. Carlos is one of the 2 million “Dreamers”, illegal immigrants who lived a normal American childhood before bein

Germany 2009, 84 min
by Lucia-Milena Bonse

A night in Buenos Aires. Young people between sunset and sunrise, in search of trash, love, justice, a future. Four life lines that will cross but won't touch each other.Nico sprays, under the cover of darkness, political graffiti against his anger at the corrupt government. His trademark is the spider, climbing over house walls and thus into Estér's nightlife. Together with her mother and her little son, she uses the hours before garbage removal trying to turn other people's waste into their li