Films by Volker Bertelmann

Germany, USA 2023, 92 min
by Ibrahim Nash’at

When the United States withdrew from its twenty-year 'forever war' in Afghanistan, the Taliban retook control of the ravaged country and immediately found an American base loaded with weaponry—a portion of the over $7 billion in U.S. armaments still in the country. Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash’at’s HOLLYWOODGATE spends a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache America left behind—and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a h

Germany 2012, 97 min
by Yael Reuveny

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That the outcome of a decision made by a brother and sister in1945 can effect the course of whole lives, for decades to come. FAREWELL, HERR SCHWARZ is an epic documentary about stories that can be inherited like the color of your eyes. A personal journey between Israel and Germany. 1 missed-meeting, 2 families, 3 generations.