Films by Rita Schwarze

2023, 39 min
by Maximilian Karakatsanis

A cinematic journey between times and places. About a so-called guest worker from Greece who went to Germany. About life in a small Greek mountain village, family and personal loss. [21 doclisboa]

Germany 2021, 80 min
by Julius Dommer

It was going to be the building of the century, the crowning glory of the Fidel Castro era. Financed with Soviet money, the first nuclear power plant in the Caribbean was to be built in Cuba, freeing the island from its energy crisis. But the megaproject was never finished. The planned 'Nuclear City' nearby is dilapidated and has been forgotten by the world. Bittersweet observations in a place that, in a time of nuclear phase-outs and energy industry turnarounds, has become a relict of a bygone age.

Germany 2018, 16 min
by Anna Kindermann

The film shows three men who gather to face death although they have their feet firmly on the ground. In garages and workshops they become craftsmen of their own coffins. In between wooden plates and saw dust they work, joke and remain silent. The intimate meetings and conversations about the present condition as well as sensing their own finitude, connects them like brothers. While the 'box' is taking on the role of a guide, helping them to reach for more through the awareness of the end, the men resign from their personal histories. A film on male communication and an emotional subject.