Balkan Beats Berlin Culture Recycling Documentary Length: 44:30 min Germany 2005 Director: Marco Valic Director of Photography and Editor: Jan Hering official website: www.valic-hering-films.de/films

Synopsis "As young people they came from Ex-Jugoslavia to Germany. Dudging the authorities that send back most refugees after the war, they now founded families in Berlin. Robert, Tatjana and Alen tell their stories about war, arrival and integration in a foreign country. Robert organizes the now famous BalkanBeats-partys in Berlin. His wife Tatjana found herself between all frontiers during the war. In Berlin she works in a Theatre and sings in a group that interprets traditional bulgarian choir singing. Their friend Alen is a photographer and tries to bring his own refugee background into his work. Following the protagonist´s paths, the dynamic, direct and honest film takes us to places of Berlin nightlife where it´s all about “Mi plesemo” (we are dancing) and where people of all nations are welcome."

Festival-Screenings Hessischer Kultursommer (Marburg, Germany)  - 2009 Ethnocineca (Vienna, Austria) - 2008 - Link Heinrich Boell Foundation - Film Series (Germany): "Doing culture - living the values of democracy" Eberswalde - 23.02.2008 Falkenhagen - 28.02.2008 Fuerstenwalde - 03.03. and 13.03.2008 Bernau - 15.03.2008 "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften" (Berlin, Germany) -2007 Filmfestival Cottbus -Youth Film Program (Germany) - 2007 OKTO TV (Vienna, Austria) -2006 9. Ethnofilmfest (Berlin, Germany) - 2006 - Link 29. Grenzlandfilmtage (Selb, Germany) - 2006 Göttingen International Film Festival (Germany) - 2006 Kratkimetar 53. Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival (Serbia) - 2006 - Link Life=Zivot Documentary Film Festival (Belgrade/Serbia) - 2005 Balkan Black Box (Berlin, Germany) - 2005 - Link DokMa (Maribor/Slowenia) - 2005 Filmfestival Cottbus (Germany) - 2005 Goeast goes Berlin (Germany) - 2005 "achtung berlin"  - new berlin film award (Germany) - 2005 - Link

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Helene 5 Days in August Documentary    Length: 14:35 min Germany 2005 Script, Camera and Editing: Jan Hering official website: www.janhering.de/helene

Synopsis "A closer look. 5 days. Specific details, everyday routine. But there is a special ambition, a certain interrelation. All of this action leads to one big goal. A film about growing old and living together in my family. A film about my grandma, about us and about me. Trivial, but not unimportant at all."

Festival-Screenings " KulturKanal 2010" - Filmschiffe, GER 2010 " Blicke in den Katakomben" - Essen, GER 2006 " Blicke im Kino Babylon" - Hagen, GER 2006 Wegiel Student Film Festival - Katowice, Pol 2006 Special - Program "Without Borders" AFO International Filmfestival - Olomouc, CZ 2006 Panorama - Student-Films " Blicke aus dem Ruhrgebiet" – Filmfestival Bochum, GER 2005 Jury Award  and  Audience Award

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