An Ox For a Baby (50')
Amharic and English | (2006/2007)
Worldwide more than two million women suffer from this childbirth injury caused by lack of nutrition and early marriage. In Ethiopia some 100,000 girls and women suffer from obstetric fistula and there are 9,000 new cases each year.
Against My Will (50')
Urdu and English | (2002)
"Against my will" is a documentary about women in a crisis centre in Pakistan. The relief centre Dastak was founded in 1990 by the AGHS, a cooperation of lawyers offering women free judicial council.
Illegal Dreams (48')
Urdu, Turkish and English | (1999)
For refugees and fortune hunters Istanbul is the gateway to Europe. For people smugglers, this city is key to their lucrative trade. In run-down hostels, thousands of illegal immigrants wait to make the crossing. Documentary maker Ayfer Ergün shows us two of the hostels and their guests: about hundred men in all, mainly Pakistanis.
The Foolish Mothers of Turkey (29')
Turkish | (1998)
In Turkey more than two-thousand people have been disappeared because of political ideas. Of more than 400 of them it is known that shortly before their disappearance they were kept prison by the government.
