IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

      EN

      Thomas Heise

      After training as a printer, Thomas HEISE (b. 1955, Berlin/GDR) worked as an assistant director at the Babelsberg film studio in Potsdam. He went on to study at the Potsdam-Babelsberg Film Academy (HFF/B). Since then he has primarily made documentaries. At the start of his career, his productions were regularly destroyed or banned by the German Democratic Republic for political reasons. Heise worked for a period as theatre director and took up filming again after the wall came down. His documentaries have been screened at several international film festivals.


      Filmography

      (selection) Wozu denn über diese leute einen film?/Why a film about such people? (1980, short doc), Erfinder 82/Inventor 82 (1982, short doc), Das Haus - 1984/The House - 1984 (1984, short doc), Volkspolizei - 1985/Police Department - 1985 (1985, doc), Barluschke (1997, doc), Meine Kneipe/My Drinking Hole (2001, doc), Vaterland/Fatherland (2002, doc), Der Ausländer/The Foreigner (2004, doc), Im Glück (Neger)/Lucky (Niggers)(2006, doc), Kinder. Wie die Zeit vergeht/Children. As Time Flies (2007, doc), Material (2009, doc), Sonnensystem/Solar System (2011, doc), Die Lage/Condition (2012, doc), Gegenwart (2012, doc)



      Thomas Heise op IFFR