FREIRAUM / LIBERATED SPACE

LIBERATED SPACE

FREIRAUM / LIBERATED SPACE

Directors: Vanessa Christoffers-Trinks, Katrin Stahrenberg
Documentary | Germany | 2025
86 min | Dolby 5.1

59th Hof International Film Festival
2025

The Buntentor is a women’s project that emerged from an occupied house in Bremen at the end of the 1980s. We show how the women independently created a space of freedom for themselves but also experience how their vision of a different life was destroyed by the closure of the house. Four former residents recall this time: Angie in her trailer, Andrea in her garden plot, Esther in her Berlin office, and the transman Luke in Hamburg, who at the time lived in the Buntentor as a woman. We accompany them in their current everyday lives.

With Andrea Wiese, Angela Huber, Esther Schaefer, Luke Owald

Cinematography Kathrin Hartmann, Editing Katrin Stahrenberg, Sound design Tom Chapman, Music André Feldhaus, Executive Production Vanessa Christoffers-Trinks, Katrin Stahrenberg, Production Vanessa Christoffers-Trinks, Katrin Stahrenberg