Films by Sebastian Leitner

Germany 2023, 55 min
by Andreas Rochholl, Sebastian Leitner

Two former Kurdish guerrilla fighters reconnect over their shared history and their decision to leave the movement to fight for Kurdish freedom in a different, non-violent way. A story of resistance against the suppression of one's own voice and culture. It is also a story of an irreversible, personal decision to give up everything, and of the courage of women who, like thousands of other young women, went "to the mountains"... only to leave it all behind again years later to exchange weapons fo

Germany 2022, 52 min
by Andreas Rochholl

In July 2021, after the last German soldier had left the country, the film team traveled to Kabul to meet female singers. No one could have guessed at the time that this would be the last opportunity to document the lives of these female artists before the Taliban took power. The speed of the dramatic changes surprised even the protagonists, who nevertheless did not let themselves be stopped in their different lives. A year later, in May 2022, all involved have left the country, their beloved ho