Films by Titus Kreyenberg

Germany 2020, 104 min
by Jeanine Meerapfel

A WOMAN is a cinematic essay, a deeply personal look into the past of a woman. The story of Marie Louise Chatelaine, the director's mother, is the starting point, but several stories are added and told in parallel, in a fragmented reflection of yesterday and today. A family history that makes contemporary history recognizable, a deep search into the wounds of exile and a reflection on the function of memory. The images that follow the stations of this woman's life flow like a stream of conscious

Germany 2018, 80 min
by Johanna Sunder-Plassmann, Tama Tobias-Macht

outside portrays four homeless men. Starting from the objects they cary around with them the film opens the gates to a world that otherwise remains hidden.outside not only invites to a change of perspective but tries to show four homeless people that have preserved a sense of dignity and pride that is all too often denied to them.Belinale catalogue:Homeless people, tramps, vagabonds and vagrants. Are they all the same idea? Or are they completely different? Sometimes the choice of words can help

Germany 2012, 75 min
by Emine Emel Balci

ICH LIEBE DICH is a story of love … and of waiting. For years the men of southeastern Turkey have gone to Germany for work. Some of them are away for a long time. Others try hard to have their wives and children join them. It takes more than money. There is a new obstacle for women to rejoin their husbands. German legislation in 2008 obliges wives to have 'basic German competence' before they can get permission to stay in Germany. The film follows different woman in Hacilar, who are taking a Ger

Germany 2012, 81 min
by Carolin Schmitz

BEAUTY is a film about hopes and dreams of people. People in this film are united by the fact that they have been operated upon. How do people live their lifes, if their wish for beauty surpasses the physical integrety of their own bodies?

Germany 2011, 81 min
by Carolin Schmitz

The full length documentary BEAUTY describes people’s conceptions of life. Having cosmetic surgeries ist the common thing of the protagonists in this film. What is the way of life for people, whose desire for beauty exceeds the physical integrity of their bodies?

Germany 2011, 90 min
by Hannes Lang

The Alps are an ancient region of natural beauty that is changing as a result of climate change. Snow is no longer guaranteed. PEAK shows how the tourist industry is dealing with the problem. Millions are invested into massive technology to produce the perfect landscape independent from nature. High-altitude water reservoirs replace melting glaciers, excavators rip up the earth, a computer operated switch room lies deep in the mountain, pipes and cables are laid in the ground, snow machines cont

Germany 2011, 79 min
by Mareike Wegener

A few weeks after 9/11, an FBI agent called the Whitney Museum of American Art and asked to see a drawing on exhibit there. The piece was by Mark Lombardi. Just months earlier, the artist was found dead in his studio. Although the official cause of death was documented as a suicide, there were many doubts. Using just a pencil and a huge sheet of paper, Lombardi had created an intricate pattern of curves and arcs to illustrate the links between global finance and international terrorism. This doc