FILMS
as a director
"Auf dünnem Eis" ("On thin ice")
TV feature film, ZDF - 90min, 2021
screenplay: Silke Zertz
cast: Julia Koschitz, Carlo Ljubek, Markus Gertken, Gisa Flake, Bruno Grüner, uva.
production: Polyphon Film Productions Berlin
Winter in Berlin. In the middle of the night, chef Ira drives into the homeless Konrad in the car park in front of her flat. After taking him to the hospital for his injuries, their fates suddenly seem connected. Ira tries to give Konrad back a place in society. In doing so, however, her own world threatens to break apart. Because she, too, walks on thin ice…
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"Ku'damm 63" - 3rd season
TV series ZDF - 3 x 90min, 2020/21
based on an idea by Annette Hess
cast: Claudia Michelsen, Maria Ehrich, Emilia Schüle, Sonja Gerhart, Trystan Pütter, and many more.
Production: UFA Fiction
„Ku`damm 63“ is set in the 1960s and continues the story of the Schöllack family at the „Galant“ dance school on Kurfürstendamm: Caterina and her three daughters Monika, Helga and Eva deal with social constraints and personal love dramas. The sisters have matured and built an independent life, but new challenges await them.
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"Kommissarin Lucas" ("Detective Lucas")
TV series ZDF - 90min, 2019
episode 30 "Die Unsichtbaren"
screenplay: Stefan Dähnert, Markus Ziegler
cast: Ulrike Kriener, Tilo Prückner, Caro Scrimali, Phillipp Moog, Steven Scharf, Mihaela Sirbu, and many more
The discovery of the corpse of an Eastern European man leads detective Ellen Lucas to a Regensburg construction company, where she encounters glaring issues. In her battle to resolve them, she challenges her entire team and puts the public prosecutor to the test. The unexpected ‘bycatch’ by customs officers during a nightly traffic control causes particular problems.
"Kommissarin Lucas" ("Detective Lucas")
TV series ZDF - 90min, 2019
episode 29 "Tote Erde"
screenplay: Mike Viebrock
cast: Ulrike Kriener, Tilo Prückner, Bruno Alexander, Luna Joradan, Anand Batbileg, Genya Rykova, and many more.
After a fire, the body of Josef, a man who lived in constant conflict with environmental activists, is found. Ellen and her team start an investigation.
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"Ein Ferienhaus auf Teneriffa" ("Family holiday with friends")
TV movie - ARD 90min, 2018
screenplay: Johannes Rotter
production: Bavaria Film Munich
Our protagonists are planning their first family holiday with their new partner at a holiday home on Tenerife – but end up having to take a few of their friends and two teenagers with them. What could go wrong? Everything. Family comedy with Anna König, Caro Scrimali, Janek Rieke, Philip Hochmair, and many more.
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"Club der roten Bänder" ("Red Band Society")
VOX Series - Season 3, 2017
3 episodes (21/22/23)
screenplay: Arne Nolting and Jan Martin Scharf
cast: Tim Oliver Schulz, Luise Befort, Damian Hardung, Ivo Kortlang, Timur Bartels, Nick Julius Schuck, and many more
Production: Bantry Bay Productions
21 * Return (AT)
22 * Know yourself (AT)
23 * Value of Life (AT)
After its third and final season, the hit series „Club der roten Bänder’“ ended in 2017. Once again, the members of the club were faced with exhausting obstacles. Leader Leo suffered a devastating blow: his cancer returned. Would he be able to take up the fight and face the life-threatening illness again? Would he be able to count on the support of his pregnant sister Tabea and the other members of the Club, and in particular on Emma?
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TATORT "Böser Boden"
TV film, NDR 2016
screenplay: Georg Lippert, Marvin Kren
production: Cinecentrum, Dagmar Rosenbauer
cast: Wotan Wilke Möhring, Franziska Weisz, Cristin König, Christian Hockenbrink, Sahin Eryilmaz, and many more.
Iranian engineer Arash is found dead in front of a natural gas production facility. He was brutally beaten and suffocated with a bag. Inspector Thorsten Falke and his colleague Julia Grosz find themselves investigating a deeply divided village community.
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"Club der roten Bänder" ("Red Band Society")
VOX Series - Season 2, 2015
3 x episodes (11/12/13)
screenplay: Arne Nolting and Jan Martin Scharf
cast: Tim Oliver Schulz, Luise Befort, Damian Hardung, Ivo Kortlang, Timur Bartels, Nick Julius Schuck, and many more.
production: Bantry Bay Productions
Production: Bantry Bay
11 * Welcome to life
12 * The happiness of others
13 * Farewells
At the beginning of the second season, Hugo has woken from his coma, but at first can only communicate by blinking. Toni has finally got rid of his bandage and will be able to leave the Albertus Clinic soon. Emma has already left, but often comes to visit her friends. Jonas now has a prosthetic leg and so will be out and about like Leo in no time. But it’s not all good news for the five friends: they soon have to cope with severe relapses and new strokes of fate. It is Leo who is hit especially hard.
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"Club der roten Bänder" ("Red Band Society")
VOX Series - Season 1, 2015
3 episodes (8/9/10)
screenplay: Arne Nolting and Jan Martin Scharf
production: Bantry Bay
8 * Birthday
9 * Farewell
10 * The jump
The VOX in-house production „Club der roten Bänder’“ tells the story of six young people: Leo, Jonas, Emma, Alex, Toni and Hugo. They are aged between 12 and 17 and are on the children’s and youth ward of the Albertus Clinic in Cologne. Together they experience moments of both sadness and hope, treading the line between life and death as well as between childhood and adolescence. Their fate welds them together and makes them close friends. As a sign of their solidarity, they form the „Club der roten Bänder“.
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"ROMEOS - different than you expect"
Feature film, 94min (2011)
Queer Cinema
writer & director: Sabine Bernardi
commissioning editor: ZDF - Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, Katharina Dufner
cast: Rick Okon, Maximilian Befort, Liv Lisa Fries, Felix Brocke, Silke Geertz, Cassy Carrington and many more.
production: Enigma Film & Boogiefilm, Cologne
about
A moving story about love, confusion and identity. Romantic coming-of-age story, humorous and cheeky. Lukas has just finished his coming out in the provinces and is starting his new life in the big city of Cologne. Unexpectedly, he finds himself in the middle of a new circle of friends and also his first flirt with the extremely attractive macho Fabio. From the initial fascination of the unequal boys for each other more and more develops - until Fabio discovers Lukas' secret and now everyone is forced to risk something for their feelings ...
ROMEOS has already been shown successfully at more than 70 film festivals around the world, including the 61st BERLINALE, FRAMELINE, BFI and the MONTREAL Film Festival
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Herzensbrecher - Vater von vier Söhnen
ZDF series - 3rd season 2015
director, 2 episodes (23 + 24)
screenplay: Christian Pfannenschmidt
production: Bantry Bay
23 * Welcome
24 * Courage
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Betty's Diagnose
ZDF series - 2nd season 2015
director, 4 episodes (13/14/15/16)
screenplay: Iris Kobler, Klaus Rohne
production: network movie
13 * Of beginnings and farewells
14 * Relentless
15 * Glimmer of hope
16 * Racing heart
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Herzensbrecher - Vater von vier Söhnen
ZDF series - 2nd season 2014
director, 3 episodes (14/15/16)
screenplay: Michael Gantenberg, Christian Pfannenschmidt
production: ITV Studios Germany
14 * "A real child"
15 * "Soko Tabarius"
16 * "Constanze's Secret"
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Betty's Diagnose
ZDF series - 1st season 2014
director, 4 episodes (9/10/11/12)
screenplay: Iris Kobler, Scarlett Kleint, Michael Illner, Oliver Welter
production: network movie
9 * "Incompatibilities"
10 * "Heroes"
11 * "Stone in the stomach"
12 * "Divorced People"
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Herzensbrecher - Vater von vier Söhnen
ZDF series - 1st season 2013
director, 2 episodes (cropped)
screenplay: Scarlett Kleint, Michael Illner, Michael Gantenberg
production: ITV Studios, Cologne
7 * "The baptism certificate"
8 * "A little bit of consolation"
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"Kindersicherung"
Movie "GG19" (2006) - Episode 13 to GG Art. §13 - The inviolability of the home
writer & director
on behalf of ZDF / ARTE
Two menacing men try to persuade Thomas to let them into the apartment. The boy fights against the intruders with all his might – but we then realise that the outcome of the situation has long been decided.
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Riot Grrls - Ausflüge in die Kampfzone
Radio feature
WDR3 / 1Live (2009)
writers: Sabine Bernardi and Annette Blaschke
director: Leo Koppelmann
editor: Leslie Rosin
http://www.wdr3.de/open-pop-drei/details/artikel/riot-girls.html
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Probezeit
Short film, 25min (2013) - director
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (teaching assignment)
Wie ein Bumerang
Short film 23min (2012) - writer & director
mafilm - Eva Martens + Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (teaching assignment)
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"Powerful Punch"
Documentary, 45 min (2009)
a film by: Sabine Bernardi and Conny Beißler
DoP: Conny Beißler
editor: Sonja Rigorth
production FH Dortmund / Filmstiftung NRW
"transfamily"
Documentary, 29 min (2005)
A film about Louis and Carsten - two men who were born women - and who, with their very personal and thoroughly humorous view of the topic, show that being transsexual is not always what is generally assumed at first glance . more…
Es wird sich eine Welt eröffnen
Documentation, 30 min (2009)
Conception / realization / editing
on behalf of the media project Wuppertal
for the DVD series “Disabled Love II”
"Nicht viel anders"
Documentary, 25 min (2009)
Survivor
Documentary, 14 min (2009)
Conception / realization / editing
on behalf of the media project Wuppertal
for the DVD series “Disabled Love I”
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"Ludmilla möchte tanzen gehen"
Short film, 20 min (2005)
writer & director
Katja’s father gets married, but the different life plans of the improvised wedding party lead them to dance to the wrong rhythm – and finally to their shaky visions of happiness.
"Greta"
Short film, 14 min (2004)
writer & director
Greta lives with her husband Gerd and her daughter Denise in the suburbs of Cologne. But Greta has a secret. One day she leaves her family to put an end to her dreary everyday life – in quite an unexpected way…
"Bollywood Princesses"
documentary, 5min (2006)
writer & director
Bollywood music makes german women dance - in a dancing lesson there is not only choreograpghy to learn but feelings to express!
This film is a coproduction with ifs cologne and ftii, film institute pune, india
"Operation: Wasserschloss"
Political short film, 5min, co-writer & co-director (2003)
Switzerland – the ‘Water Kingdom’ of Europe – ruthlessly terrorises its neighbouring countries at the height of the water crisis. We demand military intervention against this decadent rogue state!
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"Mieten Kaufen Wohnen"
VOX Docu-Soap - directing of various episodes 2011-14
Fandango Film- TV- Internet Production GmbH, Cologne
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Image films
PR film for the “Center for Development Research” (ZEF) University of Bonn, 2009
Image film for the city of Cologne “Health Management of the City of Cologne” 2009
Image films for the soccer World Cup 2006 (on behalf of the company Broadbandevent GmbH)
Official trailer for the World Cup for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (on behalf of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia)
Music documentation about the NRWM Festival (on behalf of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia).