Bernhard Hetzenauer
Directing
Biography
Bernhard Hetzenauer was born in Innsbruck, Austria, and works as a filmmaker, writer, curator and visual artist in Germany, Austria, Mexico and South America. He studied film, fine arts and psychotherapy in Vienna, New York, Quito, Buenos Aires and Hamburg, with Bernhard Kleber, Helga Reidemeister, Wim Wenders and Pepe Danquart among others. Diploma degree from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. MFA degree from the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. His film and visual arts projects were shown in 28 countries and received various Austrian and international awards.
Known For
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Über Gott, Alfi und Mexico
Martin and Daniel are inseparable friends. One is a bureaucrat who seeks to overcome every day, even though deep down he knows he will never leave his office desk. The other is a womanizer unstable without goals, but with a mathematical gift.
A estas alturas de la vida
Mexico City, August 31st. It was Victoria Sala's birthday. Her mother Consuelo was waiting for her daughter to come home to celebrate. Never could she imagine that this day would change her life forever.
The Birthmark
Vera Kohn, a Jewish woman of German descent born in Prague in 1912, fled from Czechoslovakia to Latin America in 1939, where she built a new life for herself as a theater actress in Quito, Ecuador. The trauma of losing home stayed with her forever. A severe mental breakdown changed her life. She spent three years with German Gestalt therapist Karlfried Graf Duerckheim in the Black Forest where she was introduced to his 'Initial Therapy'. Cured, she returned to Ecuador and became the country's most influential psychotherapist. The documentary essay tells the story of various encounters between the Austrian filmmaker whose grandfather was an SS soldier and the remarkable 98-year-old Jewish psychologist.
Und in der Mitte der Erde war Feuer
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They wanted to be loved
In breathtaking words, Germán López Rosales from Mexico describes his experience of a human smuggling operation from Laredo, TX to San Antonio. Next to Germán locked up inside the cargo area of a tractor-trailer, 8 of the 39 migrants died.
Those Next to Us
Chon, a member of the Native Mexican Wirrárika community, tells the story of his cousin Faustino, son of the shaman of an indigenous settlement in the mountains of Nayarit called La Mora. In the 1980s Faustino had proclaimed himself to be god and the community´s spiritual leader, which then had been accepted by his father and the inhabitants. Together with an armed group he menaced and terrorized other neighboring villages. When Chon witnessed his cousin kill various members of their own community, he escaped La Mora and reported the incidents to the police.
A God's Shadow
Set in a small former mining community in the mountains of Bosnia, the film follows the locals' everyday life and their search for life's work.