Hybrid documentary

Hybrid documentary (en/de)

The films I make don‘t try to be naturalistic or imitate reality. They have their own.

Anja Salomonowitz

Anja Salomonowitz makes documentaries and feature films for which the attribute “hybrid” is not enough. For her film “Kurz davor ist es passiert” (2006), which received numerous awards both in the German-speaking world and internationally and in which she addresses international trafficking in women, she found a specific form that protects those affected and includes potential witnesses to the crimes. Her subsequent films also follow a strict and poetic, artificial and sensual film language in which colors play an important role. With her last film “Sleeping with a Tiger”, about the painter Maria Lassnig, she was once again invited to the Forum section of the Berlinale.