Documentary Films
Life is not a competition, but I'm winning
In a poetic-radical utopia, LIFE IS NOT A COMPETITION, BUT I’M WINNING whirls up the stereotypical gender rules in competitive sport. The film sets out in search of the queer-feminist potential in the Olympic disciplines of running and creates a world beyond rigid gender images.​
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Genre: Docufiction
Length: 90 Minutes
Country: Germany,
Production year: 2020- 2023
Director: Julia Fuhr Mann
Cinematographer: Caroline Spritzenbart
Producer: Melissa Bryne
Production Manager: Jennifer Drake
Production Company: Schuldenberg Films
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Festivals:
*Venice International Film Festival - Settimana Internazionale della Critica 2023
*FimFest Hamburg 2023
*Queer Film Festival Munichh 2023
*DocLisboa International Filmfest 2023
*Hamburg International Queer film festival 2023
O Chale
O Chale is a coming of age docufiction which follows four protagonists bound together by their love for basketball and their transition into adulthood.
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Genre: Docufiction
Length: 90 Minutes
Country: Ghana, Germany
Production year: 2022
Director: Jan Hendrik Lübbers
1. AD: Jennifer Drake
Cinematographer: Jonas Thibaut
Producer: Julius Nerlich
Production Manager: Thompson Lordson
From June to July
'From June to July' is the poetic portrait of two sisters. The observational documentary accompanies Sara and Hannah during the summer, a summer that is challenging for the entire family. Hannah is 19 and severely disabled, she will never be able to do alone the things that her little sister Sara takes for granted. A film about love, communication and what it means to be a sibling.
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Genre: Documentary
Length: 28 Min
Country: Germany
Production year: 2022
Director: Zhamilya Sakhari, Sofi Lahusen
Producers: Jennifer Drake, Natalie Seraphim
Cinematographer: Marie Wald
A Room without windows or doors
September 1st, 2011: night falls around an old, renovated barn in the English countryside. In this new, alien, place I feel isolated from the only world I had ever known. I am at cusp of adulthood, and filled with uncertainty about what will become of me in the future. Alone in this strange dark place, a train of thought and imagination is unleashed that changes my whole world. We follow a long night of the soul right up to the edge of solipsism.​
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Genre: Experimental documentary
Length: 10 Minutes
Country: Germany
Production year: 2021
Director: Hendrik Clark Ehlers
Cinematographer: Samuel Zerbato
Producer: Jennifer Drake, Kirsten Wehr
Festivals:
*Flimmern und rauschen 2022
*Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
*Monstrale Filmfestival
A fall from greater heights
A hazy future lays in front of a pro-Tennis player after he losses the only that matters to him - his ability to play Tennis. In an interview with his brother, Tizian rehashes the past and talks about how he's grown from that experience and how opening his own brewery helped him cope.​
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Genre: Docufiction
Length: 10 Minutes
Country: Germany
Production year: 2021
Director: Maximillian Otto
Cinematographer: Paul Hirschauer
Producer: Jennifer Drake
A sleeping song
A dragon quakes. It wakes and takes possession of it's own: The Lake! A short documentary about the Lake Starnberg in Bavaria and the interesting folktales surrounding it.​
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Genre: Documentary
Length: 10 Minutes
Country: Germany
Production year: 2021
Director: Pirmin Sedlmeier
Cinematographer: Leander Hartung
Producer: Jennifer Drake, Rebekka Schug, Kirsten Wehr
