Cynthia Beatt

  • Cynthia Beatt – Ein Haus in Berlin AKA A House in Berlin (2014)

    Cynthia Beatt2011-2020ArthouseGermany

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    Stella unexpectedly inherits an old house in Berlin from her Jewish great uncle. Due to the dramatic history of this building, which has gone through various changes throughout the 20th century, she will have to fight for the right to claim ownership of her inheritance. Willing to do this, she embarks on a personal journey into the past that turns out to be more complex and ambiguous than she ever could have expected. A conceptual quest full of suspense, depicting a person who gets a chance to find her ‘secret homeland’ as well as rediscover herself.Read More »

  • Cynthia Beatt & Rudolf Thome – Beschreibung einer Insel AKA Description of an Island (1979)

    1971-1980Cynthia BeattDocumentaryGermanyRudolf Thome

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    This film with a marked ethnographic nature, which was filmed without a pre-established plan and with a script that crosses the lines of documentary and fiction, tells the story of a group of five Germans who arrive on a remote island in the South Pacific called Parapara and belonging to Vanuatu. Their aim is to prepare a publication on the lives of the inhabitants of this remote island. The tasks were personally assigned: one would study the language, another would study the fauna; another the traditions, institutions and family systems; another the plants and another the songs and stories.Read More »

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