Films by Stephan Bechinger

Germany, Austria 2022, 105 min
by Gereon Wetzel, Melanie Liebheit

SHE CHEF portrays the young chef and recent culinary world cup winner Agnes on her journey to mastery through some of the most outstanding restaurants in the world. The self-confident twentysomething has finished her apprenticeship at Austria’s top-restaurant Steirereck and joined the Austrian national team of cooking as the first and only woman amongst all men to win the 2018 culinary world cup with her team. We will follow Agnes ambitious journey and track her way to become a top-chef from the very beginning. SHE CHEF will also allow us to dig deep into very different cultures of cooking and give us detailed insights into the ways of working of today’s most interesting restaurants far beyond the well- known celebrity hype. [MAGNETFILM]

Germany 2017, 116 min
by Nora Fingscheidt

Argentina, 2016: in an remote desert in the North, 700 Mennonites of German origin lead 18th-century lives without electricity, music, or any of the amenities modern life affords. Their only school textbook is the Bible. Eighteen years ago, these colonists travelled here from Mexico to escape the influences of the modern world. To them, life should not be easy. Instead they strive for a severe and devout life under God and hope that their children will choose to follow the same path. That’s why they do their best to shelter them from ‘The World’, their name for everything outside their own colony. But is it really conceivable to reject modernity altogether? WITHOUT THIS WORLD captures the portrait of a tranquil, contemplative society caught between tradition and change.