Acclaimed German documentary filmmaker Karin Jurschick's latest documentary "Die Wolke - Tschernobyl und seine Folgen" has been nominated for Germany's top television award, the Adolf Grimme Preis, in the category "Information & Culture".

  Karin Jurschick, director of THE PEACEKEEPERS AND THE WOMEN, ZERTIFIKAT DEUTSCH and IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN NICE AFTER THAT, has a new documentary out dealing with the explosion of the nuclearpower plant explosion in Chernobyl and its repercussions 25 years later. “The Wolke” (”The Cloud”) will be broadcast tonight at 8:15 p.m. and is then Continue Reading

Video: Clémentine Guichard, Laura Huertas Zurriaga, Alexis Michaltsis.

 
 
I saw the movie Zertifikat Deutsch in the Arsenal cinema at the begining of the film festival One World Berlin last Thursday. It reminded me that I had taken this picture during my last German courses at the Volkshochschule. The mood was rather relaxed. It was like a small vacation camp. There I met a Continue Reading

On July 13, 2010, the Lower House of Parliament of France banned the use full body veils. This law has been voted because this type attire does not go with French values of equality between men and women. Safety is also another issue. It is important to be able to identify someone on the street Continue Reading

1. How did you come up with the idea for the film?
Someone asked me if I would consider making a docusoap about “integration courses” (topic of Jurschick’s film, see the film description). So as research for the film, I visited a number of these integration courses, particularly at the Volkshochschule in Cologne. The mix of Continue Reading