Jeanine Meerapfel Movies

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war...

A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece.

It’s the late 1950s, and in an affluent and quietly respectable part of Buenos Aires, young Sulamit Löwenstein strikes up a friendship...

A young father takes his son on a journey away from Buenos Aires and through the strange and wondrous world of rural South America. The man is...

"A Woman" is a cinematic essay about identity. A search into the wounds of exile and a reflection on the function of memory. A haunting and intimate...

In 1970, Melek Tez came to Berlin as a young worker from Turkey. A confident woman, she first countered racist resentments and remarks with irony and...

Since childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has...

An artistic audiovisual project emanating from the economic and social confusion that first emerged in recent years between Germany and Greece and...

They meet in Yugoslavia. Katharina, daughter of a Yugoslavian immigrant worker, has grown up in the Federal Republic of Germany. She is a confident,...

A woman tries to end the relationship with her boyfriend.

Two life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in South America: a picture of the pre-war generation...

Between 1976 and 1982 thousands of citizens were kidnapped, tortured and killed in Argentina. How do Argentinians cope with this tragedy? How do they...

"Had it not been for Hitler, I would have been born a German-Jewish child, more German than Jewish, in a small village in the South of Germany. But...

General Mosconi is a small town in the North of Argentina, rich with oil and gas. 1993 the state owned enterprise, YPF, that gave work, health care...

Short film by Jeanine Meerapfel and Alcides Chiesa

The film chronicles the beginning of the student protest following the death of student Benno Ohnesorg in Berlin in June of 1967.

Artificial Intelligence is already changing almost every area of life today. This documentary essay is inspired by the changes that influence our...

The creation of news is illustrated by the example of the "Schwäbischen Donauzeitung". The selection of editors, the work on the typewriter and...

Drama about the life of a few working class Germans.