A bus stop, a square, a few blocks on a suburban road. Zohra Hamadi, metal rods down her spine, gets off the bus. She walks upright, finally able to breathe easily. But Europe only grants her a few days of respite. Zohra Hamadi decides to reach out to the future. EUROPE – a story of forced fiction.
EUROPE
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“[Europe] varies the game of visible and invisible until dreams and reality fuse.”
“[Europe] varies the game of visible and invisible until dreams and reality fuse.”
Philip Scheffner
Biography
Born 1966 in Homburg/Saar, lives and works as an artist and filmmaker in Berlin. Between 1990 – 2000, numerous short and feature-length films with the Berlin-based authors’ group dogfilm. Together with Merle Kröger, Alex Gerbaulet, Caroline Kirberg and Mareike Bernien he runs the production platform pong. In the Berlinale Forum with Havarie (2016), And-Ek Ghes… (2016), Revision (2012), The Day of the Sparrow (2010), The Halfmoon Files (2007). Scheffner is Professor of Documentary Practices at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) since October 2021. His new film Europe, the first feature film production in collaboration with actors and non-actors, will celebrate its premiere at the Berlinale 2022 and will be released in German cinemas in spring by Grandfilm.
Filmography
- EUROPE – 2022, 105′, fiction
- HAVARIE – 2016, 93′, documentary
- AND-EK GHES … – 2016, 94′, documentary
- REVISION – 2012, 106′, documentary
- THE DAY OF THE SPARROW – 2010, 100′, documentary
- THE HALFMOON FILES – 2007, 87′, documentary
