Germany, Brazil / 90 min / Documentary
by Gladys Lizarazu
Argentina, Germany, Brazil / 100 min / Fiction
by Catalina Flórez
Colombia, Germany / 90 min / Documentary
Two female directors made a journey in 2019 down the Tapajos River, confronted with the complexities of failed filmmaking about Fordlândia in the Amazon. As they decide to return, the film transforms into an essay documentary, a reflective excavation of history and collaborative endeavor.
Sonja Hoffmann, a writer, escapes Berlin's winter by traveling to Formosa, Argentina, to research a german photographer's biography. She meets Aida, who left her Pilagá indigenous roots for love. Sonja and Aida embark on a journey to reconnect with the Pilagá culture, deepening their bond as they explore the region's beauty while facing potential challenges from local men.
As rock stars, the protagonists perform in front of the cameras, showing themselves as artists. Throughout the shooting, the director breaks an unspoken rule, she wants to get to know them in their intimacy, in their dealings with those people closest to them, but she finds herself faced with an impassable barrier that prevents her from reaching that place.
by Jonas Brander
Germany, Colombia / 89 Min. / Color / HD / Documentary / 2023
“Until The Sun Dies“ unfolds its stories over co-incidences of the contrary: life born from death, and death from the pursuit of peace and justice. Through its insight into the struggles of two social leaders in Colombia’s post-conflict era, the film invites us to delve deeply into the stories of those who have defied violence.
With:
Luz Marina Bernal & Albeiro Camayo
Written by:
Jonas Brander & Catalina Flórez Ibarra
Producers:
Catalina Flórez Ibarra, Jonas Brander & Leonie Pokutta
Co-Producer:
Michael Kaczmarek
Direction of Photography:
Jonas Brander
Editors:
Isabel Cristina Otálvaro & Jonas Brander
Sound:
Sergio Salgado
Original Music:
Jonas Meyer
Additional Music:
Alejandro “Lelo” Arango
Investigation:
Erica Flor
Director Assistant:
Jennifer Quintero
Production Assistants:
Paulo Arbeláez & Diana Rustemova
Sound Postproduction:
K13 Studios
Sound Design and Mix:
Adrian Lo
Title Design:
Blanca Bonet & María Acosta (TIWA Studios)
Graphics:
Diego Morales Cifuentes & Elena Bianco
Subtitles:
Mathew Way (Way Films)
by Jelena Jeremejewa & Catalina Flórez
Germany / 42 min / Color & B/W / archival material / Documentary / 2023
The protagonist of Virginia Woolf's Orlando was born a man. But, after thirty years of life, he wakes up as a woman and his previous perspective changes radically. Similarly, this personal film essay changes the perspective from which a middle-class story is usually presented. When you are neither rich nor poor, you struggle with the problem of identity all your life. All the more so if you are also a woman struggling for your rights, education, and financial independence. Inspired by Daniela Dröscher's text, the film is not only about growing up in West Germany but more generally about the difficulties of social mobility for those who are not heterosexual men.
“It took a long time for me to realize that I'm from a lower-middle-class family, from the petit bourgeois. For some time, I didn't know what to call my social position.”
Written by:
Daniela Dröscher
Text dramaturgy:
Christine Marth
Direction:
Catalina Flórez & Jelena Jeremejewa
Montage:
Alexandra Menning, Catalina Flórezm & Jelena Jeremejewa
Speakers:
Daniela Dröscher, Svenja Viola Bungarten, Catalina Flórez & Esther Dischereit
Voice recording | Sound design | Music:
Frank Zerban
Production:
Ehrliche arbeit - freies Kulturbüro
Jelena Jeremejewa
Catalina Flórez
*With the kind support of Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus Supported by funds from Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
by Inga Bremer
Germany / 75 min - 52 min / Color / HD / Documentary / 2016
During Franco’s dictatorship and right up until the 1990s, babies were taken away from their unknowing parents after their birth, to be sold. Doctors, nuns, priests, social carers, and nurses were involved.
Enrique Vila Torres (51) is an attorney from Valencia. The fight for justice for the victims has become his life’s work.
Alfonsa (43) gives birth to her first child aged 14. But the baby is stillborn. Over 27 years later, her daughter suddenly appears - alive.
Alicia (42) is looking for her roots. When the adoptive father dies, paperwork suddenly emerges. It shows that her parents paid a lot of money to a nun for the adoptive daughter.
How does a life change when someone's history and identity are forcibly taken away? Many thousands of Spaniards have found themselves in this scenario during the last few years. They are called "Niños Robados" - "Stolen Children".
With:
Alicia Rueda Jiménez
Clara Alfonsa Reinoso Cervilla
Enrique J. Vila Torres
Writter & Director:
Inga Bremer
Producers:
Silvana Santamaría & Catalina Flórez Ibarra
Production Management:
Maren Schmitt
Commission Editors:
Matthias Leybrand BR / Martin Kowalczyk / Sonja Scheider
BR / ARTE
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Director of Photography:
Kirstin Schmitt
Line Producer:
Ayla Gottschlich
Originalton:
Christina Pitouli
Montage:
Marielle Pohlmann
Music:
Can Erdogan-Sus
World Sales:
Autentic Distribution GmbH
Production Companies:
Soilfilms, BR & Arte
by Biene Pilavci & Ayla Gottschlich
Germany / 83 min - 57 min / Color / HD / Documentary / 2015
"Taksim is everywhere, resistance is everywhere."
Two years ago, in early summer 2013, thousands of mainly younger people from across all political persuasions demonstrated against the destruction of Gezi Park in Istanbul. What began as a protest against a construction project quickly turned into a wider protest against the policies of the Erdogan government. The government violently suppressed the demonstrations in Gezi Park and nearby Taksim Square.
Biene Pilavci and Ayla Gottschlich, two young German-Turkish filmmakers, happened to witness the events and shot images, putting themselves at great personal risk. Still, they decide to stay and continue to follow some of the demonstrators.
Biene Pilavci and Ayla Gottschlich have followed the protagonists of the democracy movement up to the parliamentary elections of August 2014.
CHRONICLE OF A REVOLT is a film about the hope, dreams, fears, and braveness of young Istanbul citizens who are fighting for a self-determined life. For Erdogan they are still "Capulcus“ - scum.
Cinematographers:
Tan Kurttekin, Fatih Pinar, Armin Dierolf, Güray Varol and others
Editor Assistants:
Eren Aksu, Erdal Bilici
Sound Mixer:
Erkal Taskin
Composer:
Cornelius Schwehr
Sound Design and Re-Recording Mixing:
Jan Pasemann
Production Assistant:
Cansu Baydar
Production Managers:
Aysel Yilmaz, Yüksel Yilmaz
Line Producer:
Yüksel Yilmaz
Producers:
Ayla Gottschlich, Biene Pilavci, Silvana Santamaria, Catalina Flórez
Commissioning Editors:
Kathrin Brinkmann (ZDF/ARTE Thema), Burkhard Althoff (ZDF – Das kleine Fernsehspiel)
Co-Production:
Biene Pilavci
Production Company:
Soilfilms
by Catalina Flórez
Germany / 59 min / Color / HD / Documentary / 2012
Vivian designs lingerie for prostitutes. Together with her partner Michel, she sells her creations to the girls in Holland’s red-light districts who wear these “bikinis” to attract their clients.
Vivian’s long-term relationship with the prostitutes allows the filmmaker Catalina Flórez unusually intimate insights into the mindset and the life of the girls behind the shop windows.
The film shows the human side of what is otherwise considered a morally desolate existence for these women. It describes the search for quick money, freedom, fun, love, and a life between shop windows and relationships, between morals and compulsion; between beauty and age.
- World Premiere: 45th Hof International Film Festival
- Nominated for best photography, Deutsche Kamerapreis 2012
- Best documentary film, Sehsüchte 2012
- Best editing, Sehsüchte 2012
- Nominated for best documentary, First Steps Award 2012
- BAFICI - Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, Argentina 2012
- 8th Berlin Directors Lounge, Germany 2012
With:
Vivian Botero
Michel Mesander
Michelle
Tamara
Vanesa
María
Director of Photography:
Tanja Haering
Editor:
Kilian Schmid
Music:
Frank Mueller & Andreas Fuchs
Producers:
Anna Tasja Flügel & Stephan Grobe
Executive Producer:
Hans-Hinrich Koch
A Co-production of av-independents, SWR & Filmakademie BW
Funded by MfG Baden Wuerttemberg
by Catalina Flórez
Germany / 60 min / Color / HD / Documentary / 2008
Article 13: All people are free and equal in law...
“We work, but for them we are beggars anyway” (José, 44)
“I worked since I was twelve” (Ernesto, 16)
“We Columbians have to learn to seize our opportunities” (Lisideth, 18)
“They wanted to kill me. I had to flee to Cartagena” (Arnulfo, 45)
“What I would change in my life? Everything.” (Lucía, 37)
“I survive...and have no fear of nothing and nobody” (Eddy, 50)
...and the government provides for abidance by these laws
A film about the daily struggle at Plaza Santo Domingo.
About the lost faith in Colombia.
And about the strength to preserve the lust for life.
Written & directed by Catalina Flórez Ibarra
Director of Photography:
Tanja Haering
Editors:
Wiebke Hofmann & Saskia Metten
Music:
Tom Harris
Producers:
Julia Maier & Sebastian Sawetzki
Production:
Filmakademie Bade-Württemberg
urua films GmbH
sparks@uruafilms.com
+49 177 340 2644
PRIVACY & LEGAL
Germany, Brazil / 90 min / Documentary
Two female directors made a journey in 2019 down the Tapajos River, confronted with the complexities of failed filmmaking about Fordlândia in the Amazon. As they decide to return, the film transforms into an essay documentary, a reflective excavation of history and collaborative endeavor.
by Gladys Lizarazu
Argentina, Germany, Brazil / 100 min / Fiction
Sonja Hoffmann, a writer, escapes Berlin's winter by traveling to Formosa, Argentina, to research a german photographer's biography. She meets Aida, who left her Pilagá indigenous roots for love. Sonja and Aida embark on a journey to reconnect with the Pilagá culture, deepening their bond as they explore the region's beauty while facing potential challenges from local men.
by Catalina Flórez
Colombia, Germany / 90 min / Documentary
As rock stars, the protagonists perform in front of the cameras, showing themselves as artists. Throughout the shooting, the director breaks an unspoken rule, she wants to get to know them in their intimacy, in their dealings with those people closest to them, but she finds herself faced with an impassable barrier that prevents her from reaching that place.
by Jonas Brander
Germany, Colombia / 89 Min. / Color / HD / Documentary / 2023
“Until The Sun Dies“ unfolds its stories over co-incidences of the contrary: life born from death, and death from the pursuit of peace and justice. Through its insight into the struggles of two social leaders in Colombia’s post-conflict era, the film invites us to delve deeply into the stories of those who have defied violence.
With:
Luz Marina Bernal & Albeiro Camayo
Written by:
Jonas Brander & Catalina Flórez Ibarra
Producers:
Catalina Flórez Ibarra, Jonas Brander & Leonie Pokutta
Co-Producer:
Michael Kaczmarek
Direction of Photography:
Jonas Brander
Editors:
Isabel Cristina Otálvaro & Jonas Brander
Sound:
Sergio Salgado
Original Music:
Jonas Meyer
Additional Music:
Alejandro “Lelo” Arango
Investigation:
Erica Flor
Director Assistant:
Jennifer Quintero
Production Assistants:
Paulo Arbeláez & Diana Rustemova
Sound Postproduction:
K13 Studios
Sound Design and Mix:
Adrian Lo
Title Design:
Blanca Bonet & María Acosta (TIWA Studios)
Graphics:
Diego Morales Cifuentes & Elena Bianco
Subtitles:
Mathew Way (Way Films)
by Jelena Jeremejewa & Catalina Flórez
Germany / 42 min / Color & B/W / archival material / Documentary / 2023
The protagonist of Virginia Woolf's Orlando was born a man. But, after thirty years of life, he wakes up as a woman and his previous perspective changes radically. Similarly, this personal film essay changes the perspective from which a middle-class story is usually presented. When you are neither rich nor poor, you struggle with the problem of identity all your life. All the more so if you are also a woman struggling for your rights, education, and financial independence. Inspired by Daniela Dröscher's text, the film is not only about growing up in West Germany but more generally about the difficulties of social mobility for those who are not heterosexual men.
“It took a long time for me to realize that I'm from a lower-middle-class family, from the petit bourgeois. For some time, I didn't know what to call my social position.”
Written by:
Daniela Dröscher
Text dramaturgy:
Christine Marth
Direction:
Catalina Flórez & Jelena Jeremejewa
Montage:
Alexandra Menning, Catalina Flórezm & Jelena Jeremejewa
Speakers:
Daniela Dröscher, Svenja Viola Bungarten, Catalina Flórez & Esther Dischereit
Voice recording | Sound design | Music:
Frank Zerban
Production:
Ehrliche arbeit - freies Kulturbüro
Jelena Jeremejewa
Catalina Flórez
*With the kind support of Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus Supported by funds from Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
by Inga Bremer
Germany / 75 min - 52 min / Color / HD / Documentary / 2016
During Franco’s dictatorship and right up until the 1990s, babies were taken away from their unknowing parents after their birth, to be sold. Doctors, nuns, priests, social carers, and nurses were involved.
Enrique Vila Torres (51) is an attorney from Valencia. The fight for justice for the victims has become his life’s work.
Alfonsa (43) gives birth to her first child aged 14. But the baby is stillborn. Over 27 years later, her daughter suddenly appears - alive.
Alicia (42) is looking for her roots. When the adoptive father dies, paperwork suddenly emerges. It shows that her parents paid a lot of money to a nun for the adoptive daughter.
How does a life change when someone's history and identity are forcibly taken away? Many thousands of Spaniards have found themselves in this scenario during the last few years. They are called "Niños Robados" - "Stolen Children".
With:
Alicia Rueda Jiménez
Clara Alfonsa Reinoso Cervilla
Enrique J. Vila Torres
Writter & Director:
Inga Bremer
Commission Editors:
Matthias Leybrand BR / Martin Kowalczyk / Sonja Scheider
BR / ARTE
>
Director of Photography:
Kirstin Schmitt
Line Producer:
Ayla Gottschlich
Originalton:
Christina Pitouli
Montage:
Marielle Pohlmann
Music:
Can Erdogan-Sus
World Sales:
Autentic Distribution GmbH
Production Companies:
Soilfilms, BR & Arte
by Biene Pilavci & Ayla Gottschlich
Germany / 83 min - 57 min / Color / HD / Documentary / 2015
"Taksim is everywhere, resistance is everywhere."
Two years ago, in early summer 2013, thousands of mainly younger people from across all political persuasions demonstrated against the destruction of Gezi Park in Istanbul. What began as a protest against a construction project quickly turned into a wider protest against the policies of the Erdogan government. The government violently suppressed the demonstrations in Gezi Park and nearby Taksim Square.
Biene Pilavci and Ayla Gottschlich, two young German-Turkish filmmakers, happened to witness the events and shot images, putting themselves at great personal risk. Still, they decide to stay and continue to follow some of the demonstrators.
Biene Pilavci and Ayla Gottschlich have followed the protagonists of the democracy movement up to the parliamentary elections of August 2014.
CHRONICLE OF A REVOLT is a film about the hope, dreams, fears, and braveness of young Istanbul citizens who are fighting for a self-determined life. For Erdogan they are still "Capulcus“ - scum.
Cinematographers:
Tan Kurttekin, Fatih Pinar, Armin Dierolf, Güray Varol and others
Editor Assistants:
Eren Aksu, Erdal Bilici
Sound Mixer:
Erkal Taskin
Composer:
Cornelius Schwehr
Sound Design and Re-Recording Mixing:
Jan Pasemann
Production Assistant:
Cansu Baydar
Production Managers:
Aysel Yilmaz, Yüksel Yilmaz
Line Producer:
Yüksel Yilmaz
Producers:
Ayla Gottschlich, Biene Pilavci, Silvana Santamaria, Catalina Flórez
Commissioning Editors:
Kathrin Brinkmann (ZDF/ARTE Thema), Burkhard Althoff (ZDF – Das kleine Fernsehspiel)
Co-Production:
Biene Pilavci
Production Company:
Soilfilms
by Catalina Flórez
Germany / 59 min / Color / HD / Documentary / 2012
Vivian designs lingerie for prostitutes. Together with her partner Michel, she sells her creations to the girls in Holland’s red-light districts who wear these “bikinis” to attract their clients.
Vivian’s long-term relationship with the prostitutes allows the filmmaker Catalina Flórez unusually intimate insights into the mindset and the life of the girls behind the shop windows.
The film shows the human side of what is otherwise considered a morally desolate existence for these women. It describes the search for quick money, freedom, fun, love, and a life between shop windows and relationships, between morals and compulsion; between beauty and age.
With:
Vivian Botero
Michel Mesander
Michelle
Tamara
Vanesa
María
Director of Photography:
Tanja Haering
Editor:
Kilian Schmid
Producers:
Anna Tasja Flügel & Stephan Grobe
Executive Producer:
Hans-Hinrich Koch
A Co-production of av-independents, SWR & Filmakademie BW
Funded by MfG Baden Wuerttemberg
- World Premiere: 45th Hof International Film Festival
- Nominated for best photography, Deutsche Kamerapreis 2012
- Best documentary film, Sehsüchte 2012
- Best editing, Sehsüchte 2012
- Nominated for best documentary, First Steps Award 2012
- BAFICI - Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, Argentina 2012
- 8th Berlin Directors Lounge, Germany 2012
by Catalina Flórez
Germany / 60 min / Color / HD / Documentary / 2008
Article 13: All people are free and equal in law...
“We work, but for them we are beggars anyway” (José, 44)
“I worked since I was twelve” (Ernesto, 16)
“We Columbians have to learn to seize our opportunities” (Lisideth, 18)
“They wanted to kill me. I had to flee to Cartagena” (Arnulfo, 45)
“What I would change in my life? Everything.” (Lucía, 37)
“I survive...and have no fear of nothing and nobody” (Eddy, 50)
...and the government provides for abidance by these laws
A film about the daily struggle at Plaza Santo Domingo.
About the lost faith in Colombia.
And about the strength to preserve the lust for life.
Written & directed by Catalina Flórez Ibarra
Director of Photography:
Tanja Haering
Editors:
Wiebke Hofmann & Saskia Metten
Music:
Tom Harris
Producers:
Julia Maier & Sebastian Sawetzki
Production:
Filmakademie Bade-Württemberg
urua films GmbH
sparks@uruafilms.com
+49 177 340 2644
PRIVACY & LEGAL