SPECIAL SCREENING: Dokumentarfilm "DIE MÖLLNER BRIEFE" im Rahmen des Int. FrauenFilmFests mit Regie

Special screening of the documentary "Die Möllner Briefe" by Martina Priessner as part of the International Women's Film Festival.

In attendance and followed by a discussion with the director.

The Möllner Letters

Martina Priessner
DE 2025
Documentary 96min
OmeU

Germany 1992: Rostock-Lichtenhagen in August, Mölln in November. Solingen and Lübeck will follow. Right-wing extremist attacks dominate the reunified country. In Mölln, the homes of two Turkish families burn down. Three people die and many are injured. 30 years have passed - and in Mölln, Ībrahim Arslan learns of letters, sorted away in an archive. They are letters from the public that were addressed to the families affected directly after the attacks, but were never meant to reach them. The film shows the pitfalls of archive work and the current archival turn - because behind every order there are power structures. Martina Priessner accompanies the Arslan siblings as well as other survivors, giving a voice to those who have not been heard for far too long. Her camera becomes a gesture of solidarity: traumas that have inscribed themselves on bodies become visible. This shows that right-wing extremist acts of violence endure - while they disappear from the front pages, they cut deeply into people's lives. Priessner has found a culture of remembrance where contemporary society is once again searching for it: Her film shows people who enter into dialog, who do not stop asking questions to hermetic authorities. The film never divides into good and bad - but creates a space in which archivists expose themselves and a collective visit to the archives will be remembered as a reconquest of one's own history.

Director / Writer
Martina Priessner

Visual design
Ayşe Alacakaptan, Julia Geiß, Ute Freund, Anne Misselwitz

Editing
Maja Tennstedt

Sound
Bilge Bingül, Ludwig Fiedler

Sound design
Robert F. Kellner

music
Derya Yıldırım

production
Friedemann Hottenbacher, Gregor Streiber - inselfilm produktion

contact
inselfilm production
www.inselfilm.de

Martina Priessner (*1969) is an author and filmmaker who lives between Berlin and Istanbul. She has been working on German-Turkish migration for many years. In 2010, she made the documentary Wir sitzen im Süden, which was nominated for the Grimme Award. In 2013, she made a found footage film about the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul. From 2008 to 2010, she worked as a dramaturge at Ballhaus Naunynstraße. She has received scholarships from the Nipkow Program, the DEFA Foundation and the Tarabya Cultural Academy. Most recently, she received the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Award for Die Wächterin at DOK Leipzig 2020.

Films by Martina Priessner
The Guardian 2020 | 650 Words 2015 | Everday I'm Çapuling 2014 | We Sit in the South 2010 | The Six Days of Adam and Eve 2008 | The Shave 2005 (short film)

Prizes for the Möllner Briefe
Panorama Audience Award Documentary Film - Berlinale 2025
Amnesty International Film Award - Berlinale 2025