Films by Stephan Helmut Beier

Germany 2023, 90 min
by Daniel Ulacia Balmaseda, Ginan Seidl

A sensory film from the twilight between two worlds. In a village on Mexico’s southern coast, a small community lives in a complex, spiritual bond with nature’s animals.A human being is born with a spiritual attachment to one of nature’s animals – a ‘tono’ – in a lifelong bond. Where once a tono protected its human counterpart, they have increasingly become a risk due to the destructive encroachment on their natural territories. ‘Bruises’ is a hypnotic and immersive film from the animist belief

2021, 123 min
by Ole Jacobs, Arne Büttner

About a year ago, Moria, Europe's largest refugee camp, became home to 38 year old Nasim from Afghanistan. Together with her husband Shamsullah, their two sons and her extended family, Nasim tries to manage the rough camp life while starting to question her unhappy marriage. As her family pushes her to start a new life independent from her husband, Nasim struggles because of her fears and insecurities. She needs to pass her asylum interview together with Shamsullah whose past she barely knows. W

2015, 30 min
by Ginan Seidl, Yalda Afsah

The short documentary BOY narrates through atmospheric pictures of urban environments and close observations the lives of an afghan girl which is raised as a boy in Mazar-e-Sharif and a young afghan singer, who meanwhile lives in London but wore boys clothes to be more free in afghan society.Both try to find a very special way to deal with their role in society and fight for their right to live a self determined life far away from conventional images of a woman/girl in Afghanistan.