Films

Feriengrüße (AT)

Feature documentary film, Germany 2021, in postproduction

Written and directed by Marina Anselm
DoP Pius Neumaier
Production University of Television and Film Munich

The Turkestan Archive

Online documentary series, 5 episodes of 5 minutes each
Germany 2020

Editor and Director Marina Anselm
DoP Rebecca Hoeft

Culture of birth

Online documentary series, 8 episodes of 5-8 minutes each
Germany 2019

https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/hebamme_mit_leib_und_seele?nav_id=8187&language=en

Being a midwife would appear to be more of a calling than a profession; indeed, midwives have been attending expectant mothers, women giving birth and those who have recently given birth since time immemorial. Nowadays, though, the importance of the midwife is in decline, and it is increasingly the case that midwives are involved in the preparations for birth and the subsequent postnatal care, yet it would appear that their ministrations at an actual birth have now become anything but a matter of course. In her research, Prof. Dr. Marita Metz-Becker, an ethnologist at Philipps-Universität Marburg, examines the background to this development and investigates the history of birth cultures and midwives.

Editor and Director Marina Anselm
DoP Lilli Pongratz
Production Gerda Henkel Foundation and Peter Prestel Film Production

Enabler

Commercial/Speculative Spot
Germany 2019

Written and directed by Marina Anselm
DoP Rebecca Hoeft
A Marina Anselm production in cooperation with the University of Television and Film Munich

Wind in my hair

Original title: Wind in meinem Haar – Ferne Heimat Karatau
Documentary film, 44 min, 16:9
Germany 2016

Melitta Anselm travels to Karatau in Kazakhstan. It’s been 25 years since she left the country with her family and emigrated to Germany, the land of her ancestors. Now she returns for the first time. She wants to visit her father’s grave, to see her old house, to feel the soft wind of the steppe one more time. She gets back to a place that is closer to her heart than she ever realized. A documentary about a quest for roots and identity that tells a lot of the tragedy-ridden (Russian-) German history.

Written and directed by Marina Anselm
DoP: Pius Neumaier
Sound mixer: Boris Maximov
Editor: Susanne Strobel
Music: Florian Kreier
A Marina Anselm production in cooperation with ARD alpha and University of Television and Film Munich (HFF Munich

Awards: Starter Filmpreis, City of Munich – Nomination Directing (2017)

Cockfighter

Original title: Hahnenkämpfer
Documentary film, Germany 2016, 29 minutes

Written and directed by Marina Anselm & Daniel Asadi Faezi
DoP: Pius Neumaier
Editor: Gaby Kull-Neujahr
Music: Ina Meredi Arakelian
Re-recording mix: Florian Schneeweiß
Color grading: Claudia Fuchs
A gamutfilm production in cooperation with HFF Munich

Markt und Wert

English title: Like a game
Documentary film, 9 minutes, Super16
Germany 2014

He earns a lot of money but spends only few.
He sells houses but doesn’t want to own one himself.
He likes being around people but lives alone.
A portrait of a remarkable real estate agent

Written, directed and edited by Marina Anselm
DoP: Ahmed El Nagar
Producer: Lena Karbe
A production of the University of Television and Film Munich