AM KÖLNBERG

The high-rise apartment complex “Am Kölnberg” has quite a bad reputation. Next to families of refugees and immigrants from all over the world, the people who live here have, for various reasons, been forced to the outer periphery of today’s society. Unemployment, drug abuse and prostitution are all part of everyday life here. The film accompanies four people over a timeframe of two years and docu­ments their lives here, with all of its ups and downs. They all have one thing in common: the dream of a life fulfilled, far away from Kölnberg.

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Directors

ROBIN HUMBOLDT was born in 1986 and studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. His films include: HALB ELF (short, 2011), ENDESCHLUSS (concert film, 2014), and AM KOELNBERG (doc, 2014).

LAURENTIA GENSKE was born in 1989 and studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in Cuba. Her films include: EL MANGUITO (short doc, 2015), AFUERA (doc, 2014), and AM KOELNBERG (doc, 2014).

Robin Humboldt, Laurentia Genske

photos © KHM 2014