Ira Tondowski

The Journalist and Her Jailers

The Journalist and Her Jailers explores what this local court in Germany can really accomplish. Can it actually provide some measure of justice for Luna Watfa and the tens of thousands of Syrians who have been detained, tortured and disappeared by Bashar al-Assad’s government, and thereby perhaps even provide a blueprint for future war crimes prosecutions worldwide? To engage with this question, Luna must first seek to understand what justice even means in this context, for the plaintiffs, witnesses, the defendants- and for herself.

Displaced

After years of radio silence, Sharon Ryba-Kahn re-established contact with her father. She talks to him about his absence and his family. From the perspective of someone who belongs to the third generation after the Shoah, the director examines herself and her German surroundings.

The Red Ring

Director, Joonas Berghäll, suffers from chronic Lyme disease. He looks for a cure to his illness and by doing so finds himself thrown into the midst of a worldwide lobby-driven and political medical debate about Lyme disease and the threat of it becoming the next wide scale epidemic.

I Want Justice!

A portrait of 19-year-old Ekhlas Bajoo, who was captured by IS at the age of 14, survived the unimaginable, was finally able to flee after six months and finally came to Germany as a refugee in 2015.

Born in Evin

Follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world.

Born in Evin

Follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world.