Hands Up To Heaven

Several young actresses, mostly fresh from theatre school, follow the casting call for a role tailored to their lives: that of an actress auditioning for the role of an actress… An intriguing mix of documentary and fiction that examines the complexities of womanhood as role play and acting as social practice.

A man who shot at people for no apparent reason, has been sentenced to prison. A young woman, a lab assistant, who is appointed as a juror in the case meets a sociologist who is working on a study of the penal system.

A documentary about simultaneous interpreters. Two interpreters sit in a booth. Using headsets, they listen to prerecorded English interview passages (these "originals" are inaudible to the viewer), which they simultaneously translate into German. The source interviews are conversations with translators, translation scholars, interpreters, politicians, philosophers of language, neurolinguists, and others. Approaching the process of translation from a great variety of perspectives, the film also allows the viewer to become part of that process.