Films by Tom Bergmann

Director, DoP
NEW YORK DURING THE PANDEMIC

Germany 2022, 90 min
by Tom Bergmann

In big screen images, intimate observations and dramatic stories, the film portrays New York’s transformation during the first 12 months of the pandemic.Spring 2020. New York has fallen silent. Frighteningly silent. The coronavirus has brought this buzzing, vibrant city to a standstill. The streets are empty, the “New York on Pause” rules are in force throughout the city. This film starts in the first days and weeks of the pandemic. Using big screen images, intimate observations, associative, po

New York During the Pandemic
RINGSIDE

Germany, USA 2019, 95 min
by Andre Hörmann

RINGSIDE looks at the dangerous, volatile world of Chicago’s South Side from the perspective of two remarkably gifted young boxers and the fathers who train them; as one begins a rising career in the ring, the other serves time in prison. KENNETH SIMS SR. and DESTYNE BUTLER SR. have sacrificed everything in the interest of achieving the same goal: making their sons, KENNY JR. and DESTYNE Jr. boxing champions and thus breaking the vicious circle of poverty and violence their families have struggl

Ringside