Films by Yoliswa Gärtig

Germany, Finland, Great Britain 2012, 96 min
by Katarina Peters

What makes the man a man? This is a question that everyone of us faces. Diane Torr, performance artist and 'Drag King Pioneer', developed tools to transform courageous women into the man of their choice. Maybe gender is just a mere set of gestures that men/women can acquire?

Germany 2008
by Undine Siepker

Welcome aboard INTERFLUG, the only airline of the former German Democratic Republic! Fasten your seatbelts on this turbulent flight through the lives of an East-German flight crew. Four stewardesses and one pilot look back at a time when crossing borders between East and West was the privilege of only a few. With their western adventures and outsider-perspective on GDR-life, they experience the fall of the Berlin Wall differently: Like a hard landing when INTERFLUG was shut down in 1991, but als

Germany 2008, 58 min
by Gesa Knolle, Birthe Templin

WHAT REMAINS captures almost 70 years of German history and introduces two families who couldn't be more different. When she was just 17, Erna chose to remain with her mother during the deportation even to Auschwitz. She promised her mother to tell the world of the horrors she experienced, something she is still doing. Dietlinde on the other hand finds out in her teens that the woman who has raised her is not her real mother, but her aunt. Whilst researching her family history in the 80’s, she l