GERMAN DOCUMENTARIES 2010 (PDF - 8 MB)

I BOUGHT A RAIN FOREST
by Jacob Andrén and Helena Nygren ADVENTURE | ECOLOGY | ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT | NATURE | TRAVEL
Jacob Andrén, an ordinary young man, is thinking about his
days in primary school. He is wondering about what happened
to the rainforest that he and his classmates bought after having
collected money at a flea market. They received a certificate of
ownership, he recalls, but that was 20 years ago.
The Forest is a unique, amusing and vivid film, which accompanies
Jacob on his journey to Central America, and mediates
knowledge of the rain forest. It is a story about reflecting on
the freedom of childhood and about using that inspiration to make a change.
Festivals: Gothenburg
52min or 58min | HDCAM | 16:9 | original version with Swedish or English subtitles, German voiceover available
A film about the process of painting, the way a painter thinks and decides in a world of observation
and being observed.
In this portrait, Gerda Lepke speaks for the first time about the story of her life, of the difficulties of
becoming an accepted artist. We accompany her in her studio and her home in Gera and Dresden. A
documentary about the “Kafkaesque” life enclosed in her studio space and her mother’s small house
and garden, with insight into the difficulties of a female painter who grew up in East Germany (GDR).
”A meeting and friendship that began in the mid 80s, led me into the “garden of the painter”. This
gave me the closeness and made it possible for me to realize a portrait of a painter in her own words,
as she speaks to herself. I received, in each phase of the film’s production, surprise new encounters
with the work and life of the artist Gerda Lepke.” (Wolfgang Scholz)
German title: DAS BILD IN MIR – Ein portrait der Malerin Gerda Lepke
Festivals: DOKLeipzig
53min | DigiBeta | HDCam | 16:9 | Dolby 5.1 | original German version with English subtitles available
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german documentaries 2010
Production:
Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion
Berlin GmbH +Co KG
Heinrich-Roller Str. 15
10405 Berlin, Germany
tel.: +49 (0)30-69566910
info@gebrueder-beetz.de
www.beetz-brothers.de
WG Film AB
Västergatan 23
211 21 Malmö, Sweden
tel.: +46 (0) 40-78150
fax: +46 (0) 40-233510
film@wgfilm.com
www.wgfilm.com
ILSE MIDDENDORF: BREATH – VOICE OF THE SOUL
A Revelation on the Experience of Breath
by Gerd Conradt BERLIN | WOMEN | PORTRAIT | SCIENCE | EDUCATION
Witness the work of the Experience of Breath. Prof. Ilse Middendorf (1910-2009) demonstrates movements
initiated by breath, expounding upon the principles of breath that she discovered. In this inspirational
documentary, the Grande Dame of Breath Therapy presents herself with her deep knowledge
and clarity. These rare clips of this extraordinary Berlin personality were filmed at her Institute, the former
city residence of the Princess Viktoria Luise. Ilse Middendorf participated in this project with great
excitement and support.
German title: ILSE MIDDENDORF, ATEM – STIMME DER SEELE
85min | HD | DVD | original German version with English subtiles
Contact:
Mandala Vision
Gerd Conradt
Westfaelische Str. 54
10711 Berlin, Germany
tel.: +49 (0)30-8932522
Mandala.Vision@gmx.de
www.gerdconradt.de
THE IMAGE INSIDE
A portrait of the painter Gerda Lepke
by Wolfgang Scholz PORTRAIT | ARTS | WOMEN | GERMAN REUNIFICATION | ORAL HISTORY | GDR
World Sales:
Sic! Film Production GmbH
Wolfgang Scholz
Agnesstr. 57
80797 Munich, Germany
tel.: +49 (0) 89-27399877
fax: +49 (0) 89-2718372
info@sicfilm.de
www.sicfilm.de