director & filmmaker

World-famous and legendary: Hamburg's port district of St. Pauli is a sinful mile, a red-light district, a place of refuge for gangsters and the stranded at the same time, but also the starting point for worldwide musical successes such as the Beatles or Jimi Hendrix. Like a prism of German contemporary history, the documentary series anecdotally sketches the life stories of prominent and unknown St. Paulians on the basis of the most well-known streets in the district. With exclusive archive material and visually appealing insights into subculture and rebellion, a lively chronicle and portrait of the customs of one of the most fascinating places in the world is created.

When the young startup TINGLE is affected by the shutdown, the already emerging conflicts between the founders FRANZI, JONAS and MARILU light up - they fight in the quarantine period not only for their company, but also with their own demons and against each other - which is the only way to regain true closeness and truthfulness.

Facundo and Cristina live in the slums of Buenos Aires and work at a recycling plant. Their perspective changes when the artist Frida Leon enters their lives. As part of a socio-cultural youth opera they become puppeteers and travel to Switzerland.

Three young European women, three different forms of resistance: A left-wing squatter in Athens, an alt-right activist in Vienna, and a Muslim Poetry Slam competitor in Berlin are all on the search for identity and community.

Twenty-seven years after my mother's suicide, I search for someone unknown to me. Based on old Super 8 film footage, conversations with my family and the personal letters of my mother, which appear in the estate of my grandparents, I try to get a picture of her. Behind her cheerful facade, hides a depressive inner world, which occupies more and more space. With an open view, the film approaches a closed subject, breaking the long-lasting silence.

Mountains, lakes, a perfect world: Slides found at the Vienna flea market illustrate the biography of a nameless pair of lovers. While the soundtrack soon reveals an ominous epoch of history, the male protagonists quivering from the photo-filmic pictorial space. WE ARE FINE connects a private story and its historical context, confronting a rural space of yearning with the fragility of any production of home.