The Female Documentarists of the GDR 4

Petra accurately notes down the events of a special day, tells us about a paperchase and a sailing boat ride. One of the first Film Academy productions, smoothly directed.

Deeply impressed by a magic show, two boys set out on an educational search for the magician: a mysterious film about the fact that there are no mysteries.

What to think of children playing on the Kollwitz sculpture? An exchange of letters with its sculptor inspired Christa Mühl to a shrewd and subtle miniature.

Seven-year-old Robert from Erfurt struggles against his excess weight and everything this entails: teasing, tempting cake bazaars. Christiane Hein empathises, asks questions.

An equally delicate and lucid observation of life in a kindergarten: the childish joy of storytelling between free development and integration into the social norms.