Films by Simon Peter

Germany 2023, 42 min
by Ira Tondowski

When doctors discover that Leonard has brittle bone disease, they give him a life expectancy of one year. Today, Leonard is in his mid-20s, a screenwriter, director and actor. He gets around in a wheelchair, he is small, his body is different, he lives independently and self-determined, and he says: "I don't hate my body. I find my body annoying sometimes, yes, and I have goals that sometimes go beyond that, but these are still achievable."

Germany 2021, 72 min
by Qinyuan Lei

Haohao and Zhouzhou, two sisters aged five and eight, spend most of their days at an electronics market in Shenzhen. A year earlier, as new immigrants to the city, their parents opened a shop on the market’s ninth floor. The girls’ gaze turns the soulless world of electronics into a universe full of monsters and ghost stories that make life more magical.

Germany 2019, 61 min
by Julius Feldmeier, Katja Feldmeier

Cinema – a dying artform? One by one 15 German film directors are entering a hotel room in Berlin, not to be interviewed by a person, but instead by two cameras set up on their tripods. A piece of paper with questions about the future of cinema is lying on the hotel’s couch table. None of the directors has been prepared, nor instructed, and there are no limitations to what they can do, except for one: they only have 6 minutes and 66 seconds. The diabolical number 666 pays direct tribute to what

Germany 2019, 88 min
by Lena Leonhardt

Andreas Drapa used to be a regular paver in a small town, breeding pigeons in his free time. Now he's a millionaire – and the wealthiest high-class racing pigeon breeder in Germany. As such he has become the preferred business partner of multi-millionaires in China and Dubai. Because especially in the Middle Kingdom betting on pigeon races has become a million dollar business behind closed doors. But Drapa's still aiming for more: He wants to belong to the powerful super rich, too.HIGHFLYERS ado

Germany 2019, 72 min
by Anna-Sophia Richard

Why do women stay in violent relationships even when they have been abused for a long time?We experience the daily lives of three women with different backgrounds as the camera takes on their point of view. We hear their thoughts and suffer with them as they struggle to become more independent and break free.Based on true events, all voice-over texts were taken from interviews with the portrayed women.

Germany 2018, 96 min
by Pablo Ben Yakov

Max „Adlersson“ Herzberg, 20 years old, reviews all sorts of things, talks about himself, bawls in town, cracks borderline jokes and crosses every boundary he sees – Max is a YouTube creator and makes a decent living off of it. Most of Max’s friends have their own channels. They are dubious role models, but without a doubt celebrities of their generation. LORD OF THE TOYS portrays him and his gang during one summer and studies the milieu, in which their life style is thriving: the West in genera

Germany 2017, 46 min
by André Krummel

AFTER THE FUTURE is an exposé about the conflicted and complex life of a long term HIV survivor Ortwin Passon. Despite years of struggle with the physical and mental assaults of HIV, he continues to fulfill his need for unrestrained ecstasy. Privately he battles loneliness and grieves for his past lovers, now long dead. Publicly, Ortwin has a distinguished history of service with the Federal Agency for Technical Relief. For this service he is a twelve time recipient of Public Honours. In 2005 he

Germany 2016, 69 min
by Lena Leonhardt

A remote forest: a place where dogs become canine soldiers. The dogs born here, in the military dog training school of the German Army, are all supposed to be both companion and weapon for their human counterparts. The dogs are trained to act like a weapon, and the soldiers are trained to make use of it. The initial play gradually becomes drill and the artificial training setting gets closer and closer to the scenario of a real military mission. A reality that is only to well known to another pr