Films by Thomas Keller

Germany 2023, 104 min
by Jochen Hick

Queer people from all over the world have made Berlin what it is today. Many leave their home because they want to, others because they have to. This film follows a few of them.The queer universe of Berlin mirrors the movements of the world and is constantly evolving.In recent decades, a multitude of identities have made themselves heard. Today, gay and lesbian are only two terms among many.

Germany 2016, 89 min
by Jochen Hick

Being gay, young and conservative, Mario Röllig is one of the most in-demand witnesses to the atrocities committed by the GDR. He guides groups through today’s memorial site in the former Stasi prison where he was once incarcerated. Röllig confronts GDR aficionados and is also confronted by people who still believe in social utopias and who also talk about freedom (without ever mentioning the GDR).The film unveils a strange atmosphere of misunderstandings and failures to communicate. Mario still

Germany 2009, 92 min
by Jochen Hick

Jochen Hick's new film portrays Tom Weise, one of the initiators of HustlaBall an event originally created in order to encourage the acceptance of male prostitutes, but also to launch a rent boy website. After his parents split and, having lost all contact with them, this slightly-built former student of politics decides to go to New York at the beginning of the 1990s. Being viruspositive, he is obliged to live in the USA illegally. In fact, according to the law, he cannot even pay a visit to th