Warrugs / planned
Documentary, 90 minutes
Afghanistan is famous for wars and carpets. The Afghan war rugs are less well known. About 30 Years ago, they were woven by hand for the treatment of trauma. Today they are produced as souvenirs for foreign soldiers and tourists.
In search of traces of the weavers of the first war rugs, the film leads from Hamburg to Kabul and Herat.
Script development funded by the Filmcommission Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein GmbH, 2012.
Participant in the Bavarian First Movie Program since 2014
Phantompain Mladic
Documentary, 90 minutes / Production: HUPE Film Cologne
20 years after the beginning of the Bosnian war, Miso Esic goes on a journey along the hiding places of the former Serbian general Ratko Mladic.
Miso wants to find out why the presumed war criminal only 16 years after his escape was arrested and brought to trial.
Trailer "Phantompain Mladic"
Development funded by the filmcommission NRW 2009
Participant in the Ex Oriente-workshop 2010
Noel and Kiara
Documentary, 30 minutes / Production: Helga Bahmer 2013
Kiara was born healthy three years ago. In her first months of life, she suffered a shaken impact syndrom.
Because of that she is seriously disabled and blind.
With every cold, her functioning of the body may refuse completely, so that she must die. Kiaras biological parents gave her up long ago. Today, the girl lives with blind foster parents. How does her new family deal with the complicated situation?
Luck is luck
Documentary, 23 minutes / Production: KHM Cologne 2010
For ten years the Chinese SI lives in Germany. Life between the cultures affects her everyday life. She tries to hold together her global network by mobile phone, the internet and meetings at international airports.
Script, Directing & Editing: Helga Bahmer
Cinematographer: Simone Friedel
Sound: Anna Weisse
Commitments
Shortfilm, 21 minutes / Production: KHM Cologne 2008
Doris, the wife of a rich businessman, struggles with her corrupt husband, her own lethargy and her possessive house manager. Until an old friend appears, which seems to be helpful.
A Co-Production with the FH Dortmund
Filmfestival of the HHU in Düsseldorf 2008
„Umtau“ Filmfestival in Leer 2009
Script, Directing & Editing: Helga Bahmer
Cinematographer: Simone Friedel
Sound: Benjamin Simon
The forgotten Brigade
Documentary, 7:30 minutes / Production: KHM Cologne 2007
"Subbotnik" was called the annual spring cleaning in the GDR in the style of the Soviet Union. In an East German housing estate, at the edge of the town Schwerin, this tradition is still taken very seriously.
Filmfestival Kassel 2007
1. jury award of the competition “Ich bin im Bilde” 2008
„Niemieckie Niuansa-German Details“ in Poland 2009
Script, Directing & Editing: Helga Bahmer
Cinematographer: Simone Friedel
Sound: Benjamin Simon
Distant relatives
Documentary, 52 minutes / Production: Bahmer&Friedel 2005
60 Years after their banishment from former Yugoslavia, a group of Germans goes to their birthplaces in the Vojvodina. Helga Bahmer, who is grown up in Germany, accompanies her father on this trip.