Films by Sylke Rohrlach

Germany 2011
by Miriam Faßbender

After his second failed attempt, the young Malian Mohamed finds himself in Gao, northern Mali. Gao is a hub for refugees from Central and West Africa and usually the first stop on one of the world's oldest migration routes via Algeria and Morocco to Europe. This is where Mohamed tries to regain his strength and earn the necessary money for his next attempt. Actually Mohamed wanted to work as a rice farmer in his homeland, Mali, but after his father's death his mother took him out of school and s

2008, 86 min

Narmila is on the Iranian Women's national football team, they’re dedicated, they train, they love football, but they have one problem, they are not allowed to compete.Under Iranian law only men can participate in or watch a sporting match.When Marlene, the left back on the Berlin-Kreuzberg women’s team, hears of this, she decides to do something about it. She spends the next year in a difficult struggle with the Iranian government to get a match arranged between her team and the Iranian women’s