Films by Zoran Solomun

Germany 2009, 87 min
by Helga Reidemeister

Hossein and Shaima have loved each other since childhood. As teenagers they were separated by war. They meet again in Kabul in the 1990s. Poverty forces Hossein to fight in the war. A shell splinter leaves him a paraplegic. Shortly afterwards, Shaima is sold in marriage to a man 40 years her senior. Shaima, who is the man’s fourth wife, falls pregnant. But Shaima’s husband still owes half the dowry, and so her father brings her back into the constraining patriarchal fold of the family, where she

Germany 2009, 89 min
by Zoran Solomun

There is a boom on the art market since a couple of years. The works of contemporary artists are being sold for astronomous prices. Some of them cost as much as an airplane.The main protagonists of this development are galerists, art dealers. Super Art Market is a film about galery owners today. Leo Koenig from New York, Lorenz Helbling from Shanghai, Judy Lybke from Berlin, Laura Bartlett from London and Michai Pop from Cluj, Romania are showing and explaining how they run their business, makin

Germany 2009
by Uli Stelzner

At the end of the 20th century, in Guatemala Army and Police kill and abduct hundreds and thousands of people. But the unprecedented Genocide in America's modern history goes unpunished. To this day, a system of terror and impunity relies on silence being kept and the lack of evidence. But in july 2005 a huge explosion in the Guatemalan capital leads to the discovery of the historic archive of Guatemala's National Police. On the grounds of today's Police Academy used to be located the island, th

Germany 2004, 93 min
by Helga Reidemeister

Helga Reidemeister portrays four women from Afghanistan—Jamila Mujahed, India—Arundhati Roy, Serbia—Stasa Zajovic and the USA—Sissy Farenthold, who demonstrate their opposition to nationalism and war.In TEXAS—KABUL director Helga Reidemeister shows four committed women, who do not tolerate war and don’t want to be silent about it.A political road movie, a journey around the planet, searching for meaning in times of war, and a journey into the own past. The director, worried by the announcement o