Films by Roland Musolff

Germany 2021, 98 min
by Antje Hubert

What do we need for a good life? Not all that much, says the owner of a village shop in Germany’s far north. Food and drink, and above all, the freedom to take your time for whatever it is you are doing at a given moment. A journey across the countryside in search of an answer to the question of what, and how much, we really need.

2021, 57 min
by Georg Kussmann, Krystsina Savutsina

In what we guess is a village court, the “judges”, who seem bored stiff, tell off an alcoholic tractor driver, reminding him that vodka abuse is not compatible with his responsibilities as the head of the family. Elsewhere, the slow ballet of cow milking begins, a wedding is celebrated with great pomp and ceremons (and a little kitsch), and the local firemen test out their ladders and fire hoses, in case something happens, as a firework display is about to begin... Like a Dziga Vertov on Lexomil

Germany 2020, 83 min
by Roswitha Ziegler (Wendländische Filmkooperative)

33 days of utopia is a film about remembering, digging up stories/history.In May 1980, more than 800 people lived for 33 days near Gorleben in the protest camp "Free Republic of Wendland" and thus prevented for a short time drilling for the planned nuclear waste repository in the nearby salt dome.Attila Dészi, archaeologist, Univ. Hamburg, made excavations at the protest camp  2017-2018. Digging for the history of the resistance, so to speak. What was the archaeologist looking for? What did he f

Germany 2014, 79 min
by Claudia Richarz, Ulrike Zimmermann

We live in hypersexualised times. The press, adverts and TV are constantly putting naked women and their genitalia on display. But many women are still deeply prudish when it comes to the relationship with their own body. In public we see airbrushed, de-individualised anatomies which conform to the standards of attractiveness used by the porn industry. The ideal image of the smooth, perfectly shaped vulva with symmetrical labia has little to do with the actual shape of most female genitalia. The

2014, 15 min
by Rosa Hannah Ziegler

An emotional and strongly subjective movie about the question of what “happiness” is. At 19, Yasmin is in search of her own happiness and trying to understand her life, as well as the difficult relationship with her mother, a former heroin addict.

Germany, Austria 2001, 60 min
by Ingrid Molnar

Not only materialism, high rents, and a shortage of space, but also a certain lifestyle (still) quite different from the European way of living, have made private self storage neccessary for example in New York. Armed with a camera, the Hamburg-based Viennese filmmaker observed how people in New York make their lives easier or an income for living possible through renting small rooms in large storage buildings, where they store the likes of clothes, books and videotapes. Some visit their locker