Films by Thomas Jeschner

Germany 2021, 119 min
by Manuel Fenn

Spring 2020. Suddenly the world stands still. On every continent, people find themselves in a lockdown. The world as we know it is has suddenly changed. What will come next is uncertain.Filmed over a year in twelve different locations, from the Amazon to Kuala Lumpa, Nairobi to New York, this film profiles the year when everything changed. Stories of hope and despair, empathy and ignorance, resilience and a feeling that everyone has had to face: the sense of our own mortality. Twelve intimate po

Germany 2019, 115 min
by Barbara Wallbraun

UFERFRAUEN – Lesbian life and love in the GDR is a documentary which tells the life stories of six lesbian women in the GDR – in the big city as well as in rural areas – and how they lived and loved in same-sex relationships. These six very different biographies are representative of untold lesbian history, ranging from intimate love stories to accounts of state repression. Shaped by socialism, how did these mothers, workers and warriors, often "invisible" lesbians, live? UFERFRAUEN illustrates

Germany 2015, 84 min
by Tom Lemke

“What can you do?” A cri de coeur we are going to hear quite often in this film about the last Mohicans of Grunau. A ghost village built over a deposit of brown coal in the south of Saxony-Anhalt whose inhabitants were resettled in the 1990s. The only ones left are the locksmith, the famer and the Norbert, whose house is being picked apart by woodpeckers. They form a strange community as the film opens in 2003. They still slaughter livestock together, help each other, former neighbours drop by a