Germany

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A collective memory of the abandoned community, and shows how these mothers and their love – withstand the trials of life in jail, far from family and loved ones.Read More »

The true story of a young female soldier who comes of age during the Eritrean civil war.Read More »

After short time in London, a murder has happened with a bullet in the form of a black widow for the second time, provides the drinkable journalist Welby to investigate. It turns out that the victim had attended a Mexico expedition several years ago, whose director Avery allegedly came through the bite of a black widow killed. After also former expedition members lose their lives, the suspicion of the attractive daughter Avery falls.Read More »

Veit Helmer’s sizzling ‘behind the scenes’ exposé of the casting business and how acting hopefuls break into show biz.Read More »

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Joris Ivens’ Rain left a lasting impression on Bergmann-Michel. The main motif of the lyrically edited film is a single rain shower, filmed over a period of two years. As a working portrait with photos, drawings, collages and sequences from the films rediscovered for this purpose, Mein Herz schlägt Blau – Ella Bergmann-Michel combines her artistic biography with her cinematic commitment to social reform. The essay by Jutta Hercher and Maria Hemmleb tells of the grotesque collages influenced by natural science, of pacifist hopes, photographic experiments and the film working group in New Frankfurt. Mein Herz schlägt Blau begins in the Schmelzmühle, the meeting place of artist friends and, during the Nazi era, an ‘underground’ retreat. – Fischfang in der Rhön comes closest to Bergmann-Michel’s free artistic work and combines it with a documentary perspective. The encounter with Ivens’ Regen echoes.Read More »

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The film is characterised by atypical landscape shots, with views of nature being distorted without technical effects. Close-ups, details and overhead shots without a horizon create an impression of flatness. Flora and fauna are transformed into graphic elements through symmetrical reflections.

‘Fischfang in der Rhön’ is reminiscent of Ella Bergmann-Michel’s experimental landscape photographs on the one hand and her collages on the other, in which she layered coloured transparent papers on top of each other.Read More »

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A Kurdish boy who sells drugs and an ex-cop who drives a taxi: an unlikely couple who get lost in an urban crime thriller.Read More »

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Ella Bergmann-Michels’ second film, ‘Erwerbslose kochen für Erwerbslose’ (The Unemployed Cook for the Unemployed), was commissioned by the Frankfurt Association of Soup Kitchens, which had run out of funds to provide thousands of unemployed people with hot meals as the economic crisis worsened. The film was shown as a supporting feature in many Frankfurt cinemas and in street screenings at the Frankfurt Hauptwache.Read More »

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The documentary film ‘Where Do Old People Live’, commissioned in 1931 by Dutch architect Mart Stam, shows the modern and forward-looking architecture of the Budge Home in Frankfurt. Its residents live in spacious, light-filled rooms and are accommodated in single rooms with state-of-the-art facilities. The film focuses on presenting architecture that promotes social interaction among residents through its spatial structure.Read More »