Films by Oscar Stiebitz

Germany 2023, 239 min
by Julian Vogel

Munich 2016, Halle 2019 and Hanau 2020.Three right-wing extremist attacks by so-called 'lone wolves': Alleged lone perpetrators who apparently radicalised themselves on the internet without being part of classic extremist structures and suddenly struck in public spaces.These are stories that now dominate the headlines: According to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, right-wing terror is currently considered the greatest threat to democracy in Germany.And this despite the fact tha

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 2016, 71 min
by Asli Özarslan

At 26, a Kurdish-German woman is elected the youngest mayor in Turkey. In a record 81% landslide she is elected mayor of Cizre, a Kurdish capital city that lies in the war-torn region at Turkey’s border with Syria and Iraq. It is here that Leyla was born, but after her father was killed by the Turkish military, she was sent at the age of 5 to live in Germany.After more than 20 years, she returns home. Her goal is to heal and beautify the civil-war-torn city, which is enjoying a break in the viol