Films by Tobias Adam

Germany 2024, 90 min
by Lilith Kugler

When Lilith comes to Berlin to study film, homeless Chris is the first person to welcome her. Chris lives with his buddy Alex at an S-Bahn station, cared for by the entire neighborhood. But he is an addict and unable to free himself from the vicious circle. As his general condition gets worse and worse, he decides that he has to get off the streets and off heroin. But can a young man find his place in our society, even though he has never fit in anywhere since childhood – or wanted to?

Germany 2022, 90 min
by Antje Schneider

Hospital manager David Thies has a vision of a new kind of hospital: one designed as a comfortable patient hotel where organic food is served and everyone is treated as a guest regardless of their health insurance category. A place where innovative care concepts are combined with attention to privacy, safety and improved working conditions for the staff. An ambitious plan, but David is a pioneer, somebody who wants to set standards.Cutting privileges of doctors in exchange for quality in health

2022, 92 min
by Markus CM Schmidt

Popular music has its roots in West Africa, and especially in Mali. In Berlin, a bigband discovers old vinyls from the Malian Bigband era, music which embodied the hope for Malian independence before a coup brought an end to the legendary brass sections. Inspired by these songs, the Berliners travel to Mali to find the heroes of their vinyl-collection. There they research the origins of the songs, marvel at old archive footage and bring back the lost brass sections to play with forgotten Malian

Germany 2019, 79 min
by Annekatrin Hendel

Sven Marquardt might be the most famous bouncer worldwide. But beside standing in front of the legendary techno club Berghain in Berlin, he is also a well-known and skilled photographer. Long before the Berlin Wall came down, Marquardt portrayed the subcultural East-Berlin scene. His black and white photography illustrates it as voluptuous, laid-back, dirty and existential. Even if shot by daylight, his work is permeated by darkness, ecstasy and night.with: Sven Marquardt, Dominique Hollenstein

2019, 88 min
by Daniela König

Aishe, after losing her husband, suddenly became the sole provider for her three children. She participates in several workshops for emancipation of Muslim women and decides to pursue a career as a female plumber to ease her financial situation. WATERPROOF gives a humorous insight into the world of a plumber and her colleagues who try to stand their ground armed only with pliers and screwdrivers. They are the first femal plumbers in Jordan - one of the driest countries in the world.

Germany 2018, 82 min
by Lilith Kugler

In Burkina Faso, traditional society has no space for people with mental illness and epilepsy. Demons are seen as cause for their diseases which are wrongly considered contagious. They live on the outskirts of the villages, in prayer centers, or wander around unnoticed, often chained or beaten. Pastor Tankpari Guitanga has decided to help these people and has founded the local aid organization Yenfaabima, whose revolutionary work is still just starting. LA MALADIE DU DÉMON (The Demon Disease) sh

Germany 2018, 96 min
by Pablo Ben Yakov

Max „Adlersson“ Herzberg, 20 years old, reviews all sorts of things, talks about himself, bawls in town, cracks borderline jokes and crosses every boundary he sees – Max is a YouTube creator and makes a decent living off of it. Most of Max’s friends have their own channels. They are dubious role models, but without a doubt celebrities of their generation. LORD OF THE TOYS portrays him and his gang during one summer and studies the milieu, in which their life style is thriving: the West in genera

2016, 83 min
by Florian Kläger, Markus Milcke, Tobias Adam

Shot on three continents, this film provides an inside look at Christopher Kirkley’s project “Sahel Sounds” - a blog, record label and platform to explore arts and music of the Sahel region through non-traditional ethnographic fieldwork.We follow Chris from Portland to Niger, where he meets some of his long term collaborators as well as new artists. On a road trip from the capital to Agadez, the gateway to the Saharan desert, we witness stunning music performances along the way and after figurin