Jens Schanze Trailers
Winterkinder Trailer
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Jens Schanze was born in Bonn in 1971. In 1987, he spent a year living in the USA. In 1990, he embarked on a degree in Forestry at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and, in 1992, began working in television as an assistant director. In 1994, Schanze spent a year in Bolivia working on a project for Conservation International before he began his studies at the University of Television and Film in Munich in 1995. Through the production company Mascha Film, which he co-founded with Judith Malek-Mahdavi in 2002, he has directed numerous prizewinning documentaries including WINTERKINDER (2005) and PLUG & PRAY (2010). In 2014, he became a Professor of Film and Video Design.
Most Popular Jens Schanze Trailers
Total trailers found: 9
01 October 2020
Asude lives in Lower Bavaria. Her grandparents came to Germany from Turkey in the 1970s. She’s currently studying for her school-leaving examinations and, at the same time, training for her dream of becoming a kickboxing champion.
18 November 2001
By 2045, twenty localities in Germany will be resettled because of brown coal open pit mining. The film Waste Land follows the inhabitants of three villages in the Rhenish coal-mining district during their last years in their old home and documents how an entire region prepares for its collective relocation.
21 January 2015
The village of Tamaquito lies deep in the forests of Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with everything they need.
30 October 2007
The second part of Jens Schanze's cinematic chronicle of the village resettlements in connection with the “Garzweiler II” open-cast lignite mine operated by RWE AG.
11 November 2010
Will man go beyond biology? It's an age-old dream to create intelligent machines that equal their human creators.
08 December 2005
Was grandpa a Nazi? When director Jens Schanze confronts his mother with her father's past, decades of silence have passed.
22 October 2026
The Bolivian Andes are rich in both lithium and drama in a film about a new gold rush, where global interests collide and 500 years of colonial history continue to haunt the present.
01 November 1999
The camera follows five women. For 25 years, they have been selling women’s clothing in a shop in Munich: the junior manager, the senior manager, and their three saleswomen.
