Films by Pia Lenz

Germany 2023, 87 min
by Pia Lenz

Eva is 83 and Dieter 86. They danced together for the first time in the winter of 1952. They wrote love letters to each other and imagined a life together. They got married, built a house and had three children. They lost one daughter. At the beginning of filming, Eva and Dieter have been a couple for 66 years. What remains of that and what still counts now? This is what the feature documentary film FOR EVER by award winning director and cinematographer Pia Lenz is about.

Germany 2016, 95 min
by Pia Lenz

Over the course of a year Pia Lenz followed the Syrian girl Ghofran, aged 11, and the Romanies-boy Djaner, aged 7, who came together with their families to Germany as refugees, in their search to find a place for themselves. The perspective of these children offers a clear and very moving view of this new cohabitation in Germany one year after the arrival of over a million refugees. The film asks the question: How can we give a homeland to those who most urgently need a future?