Markus Schindler

In 1968, the young Edgar Reitz teaches filmmaking at a girls’ school – a ground-breaking educational experiment. Fifty-five years later, there is a class reunion.

Gangerl, an aging dropout, embarks with a young film crew on a gruelling odyssey across the Indo-Pacific to the indigenous people of West Papua to discover the values lost in our consumerist society. A journey to find understanding for the mortality within his generation and himself.

In 2020, the author Anatol Regnier published Jeder schreibt für sich allein, a book that examines the life and work of writers in Nazi Germany. In collaboration with Regnier, Dominik Graf, Constantin Lieband, and Felix von Boehm have adapted this book into a polyphonic essay film of the same name – almost three hours in duration – that takes a meticulous look at the contradictory biographies of Hans Fallada, Gottfried Benn, Erich Kästner, Ina Seidel and Will Vesper.

A short experiment about the present moment. A hunt for the unique gift of coincidences. A look at filmmaker Nicolas Humbert - with his very own, poetic approach. Refering to his methods, memories and pictures.

Benedikt Bösel was an investment banker, but then the financial crisis hit and with it the question of meaning. Today, he is a farmer, a visionary and leads a young team that is testing a radical new type of agriculture in the fight against climate change.