Films by Sandra Merseburger

2017, 62 min
by Sandra Merseburger, Hannah Marquardt

Seven young people tell the story of their arrival to Germany. They come form Syria, Afghanistan, Guinea and Armenia, and the reasons for leaving their countries range from war to lack of prospects. They talk about the circumstances of their journey or forced escape. And about their challenging search for new opportunities against the violation of their basic human rights.The young filmmakers merge their different stories of migration into a documentary which displays the challenges and difficul

Germany 2008
by Undine Siepker

Welcome aboard INTERFLUG, the only airline of the former German Democratic Republic! Fasten your seatbelts on this turbulent flight through the lives of an East-German flight crew. Four stewardesses and one pilot look back at a time when crossing borders between East and West was the privilege of only a few. With their western adventures and outsider-perspective on GDR-life, they experience the fall of the Berlin Wall differently: Like a hard landing when INTERFLUG was shut down in 1991, but als