Chitwan is part of the western Terai in Nepal. Tharuland. Well known for it's Royal National Park where you can explore the wilderness by feet and met easily hundreds of birds species, rhinos, elephants and tigers. Not every encounter will be survived, but mostly people are lucky. When I visited the area in December 2016, I focussed on Rapti-river and the Tharu living there. People are washing themselves, their clothes and cars in the water. Elephants come for a bath frequently. Men are fishing and women harvesting snails. Everyday life. One morning I stood at the riverbank and Salina, 11 years old invited me spontaneously for tea with her family while she and her brother prepared for school. We couldn't speak to each other, I only know some nepali words but we found a way to communicate. It was a very happy start into a new morning.
About the camerawoman, director, producer and sometimes distributor Susan was born in Hamburg, Germany. Before studying at the Academy of Film and Television in Munich in 1995, Susan joined practical training as a forest ranger, cook and a veterinarian in the 1980ies. After secondary school and studying business and commerce in Hamburg she went in 1990 for longer stays in Italy and France, developing her horsebackriding and photographic skills. In the early nineties Susan explored the advertising business, working with filmproductions and photographers. From 1993-1997 she was travelling the world taping the sound for TV-features. At the filmacademy (1995-2002) Susan became deeply impressed by the neorealistic italian epoque and the social and artistic aspects in films by Raymond Depardon and Ken Loach (lectures with Loach himself at the academy!). In combination with lessons by journalist Gerd Ruge (who arranged practical training as correspondent-trainee in the studios of ARD and ZDF in Nairobi, Kenia) she explored a wide branch of possibilities how to tell stories in pictures and sounds. At HFF Munich Susan produced, shot and …
Bhutan, 2001 Jakarta, 2014 Bali, 2014 Bali, 2014 Havanna, 2016 Havanna, 2016
2025 Wenn Toskana Auswanderer älter werden 30 min., 4K, Dir: Susan Gluth, Prod: Doppelplusultra GmbH, arte 2022-2024 Und plötzlich hat die Revolution ein weibliches Gesicht 90 min., 4K, Dir: Cordelia Dvorak, Prod: elemagpictures & Vinzenz TV 2023 A scheene Leich / Gerhard Polt und die Well Brüder Aufzeichnung Kammerspiele München, Dir: M. Rosenmüller, Prod: Südkino 2004-2017 Gestorben wird Morgen 73 min., HD, Dir: Susan Gluth, Prod: gluthfilm, NDR 2011-2016 Urmila - my memory is my power 87 min., HD, Dir: Susan Gluth, Prod: gluthfilm, zero fiction film GmbH, Al Jazeera 2014 Riebesehl, Gauditz, Giesel - die Spectrum Photogallerie 15 min., HD, Dir: Lars Tredup, client: Collection Regard, Berlin 2011-2024 Familienriss 90 min., HD, Dir: Catherine Menschner, Prod: Saxonia, Leipzig 2010 Fürstliche Orangeriekultur 12 min., HD, Prod. and Dir: Ysabel Fantou, München client: Bayerische Schlösser- und Seenverwaltung 2009 Heimatbilder 29x15 min., HD, Dir: diverse, Prod: Inter/Aktion, München, BR, BRalpha 2009 Pilawas Welt von morgen 75 min., HD, Dir: and Prod: Dethlev Cordts, Hamburg, ARD 2009 EADS-Airbus, une affaire d'Etats 90 min., HD, …
One of the most impressive documentary film shootings for me was the agency MAGNUM PHOTOS in Paris in 1998. Iconic photographs I have seen a thousand times were down on the table as originals / photographic negatives. Every angle in this kingdom of pictures was breathing the energy of Capa, Cartier-Bresson and all the other big names. One day we were invited by HCB for lunch. I remember a light-flooded apartment above the Tuilleries gardens and a little old man asking me to sit next to him. He was one of the most funny and at the same time decent hosts I ever met. Finally he gave me a little buddhist book and told me to read it over and over again. What I still do, until today. “Magnum is a community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on and a desire to transcribe it visually” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
Germany, Hamburg, 1994 Nairobi, Kenia, 1998 Great Britain, Oxford, 1996 Germany, Hamwiede, 1990 Great Britain, Oxford, 1996 Nepal, Manpur, 2012 Chad, 2005 Nepal, Narti, 2015 China, Inner Mongolia, 2007
Buttertea, 2001 Monks, 2001 Lama Datong Trulku Rinpoche, 2001
These pictures were drawn by children in a refugee camp in 2005. They flew from Darfur / Sudan into Chad and found a place in Bredjing. Unfortunately most of the families are still living here. And don’t see any chance of going back to their villages because of ongoing ethnical clashes. links: Shadows of Fate – a refugee childhood Shake hands with the devil – Romeo Dallaire The Silence – Gilles Peress
OFFICIAL TRAILER Youtube WATCH THE MOVIE Vimeo Amazon Prime Amazon USA Amazon UK Sooner Filmfriend Guidedoc AWARDS & NOMINATIONS PRE NOMINATION German Film Award 2016 PRICE OF THE MAYOR of Zakopane, Poland 2017 BEST FILM Kathmandu Mountainfilmfestival, 2016 SHORTLIST One World Media Award, London 2017 BEST DOCUMENTARY NAIFF Washington DC, 2017 Seal of Approval: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FILM WEBSITES www.urmila-film.com www.urmila-film.de IMDB SYNOPSIS Urmila wants to change Nepal. This young woman fights with admirable energy against centuries-old social structures. She has but one goal: the end of child slavery. Her political activities drive her to assume responsibility for others, but must also think of herself. “Children go to school. Adults go to work!” Urmila shouts angrily in a protest march on the streets of Kathmandu. Together with her fellow campaigners she frees girls from captivity, demands of the Prime Minister the end of slavery, holds press conferences, travels to Oslo and New York – and tries back at home in Ghorahi to complete the next year at school. She has big plans: she wants to study …
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