The Corner
Through archive and testimony, the past and present come together on a simple street corner
Festivals and Awards
DOK Festival Leipzig | World Premiere
Christa Pfafferott - Director
With my stories I want to make unnoticed topics visible and touch people in a lasting way. To do this, it is important to me to go into psychological depths and to dive into different worlds of society.
Currently I am working on a literary novel – supported by a scholarship from the Kulturstiftung Thüringen.
My current film Die Ecke (The Corner), funded by MDM Filmförderung and Moin Filmförderung, in co-production with MDR and in collaboration with arte, follows the story of a 1945 photo from Thuringia. The film had its world premiere at the DOK Festival Leipzig 2022 and is broadcasted on arte and MDR after a theatrical tour.
My previous film Other World“, about female nurses and patients in a clinic for forensic psychiatry, was awarded the Marlies-Hesse-Prize and shown at festivals, on TV and is currently shown on Netflix. I also wrote my dissertation on the subject, "The Panoptic Gaze,“ which was published by transcript.
My films, such as Difficult Birth, about a mother who became pregnant unintentionally, or Party of the Aged, about a family caring for their grandmother, have been screened and awarded several times.