Films by Thomas S. Wallner

Germany 2014, 88 min
by Thomas S. Wallner

The greatest love, the deepest disappointment – and most of all the courage to be oneself! Five protagonists with five amazing life stories to tell – about being different, searching for meaning, identity or a place to belong to. The documentary gives insight into the astonishing and moving experience of a group of people, who in their old days had the courage to try something new. In 2010 seven ageing travesty artists were asked by Belgian star choreographer Alain Platel to return into the spot

Germany 2011, 90 min
by Thomas S. Wallner

In August 2006, Murat Kurnaz was released from the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He had been detained for 5 years, without trial. In the same year, Matthew Diaz, Judge Advocate for the Navy was sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment for passing on the names of the detainees to a human rights organisation. Four years earlier, in 2002, Judge Advocate Diane Beaver was also deployed in Guantanamo. Here, she became the author of a legal memorandum that would later be nicknamed: the tortur