Lilli Pongratz

Movies

Shahid
Tonfrau
Narges Shahid Kalhor is a director seeking to be rid of the “Shahid” (martyrs), who are too heavy a burden. From Bavarian bureaucracy and therapy to dancing with Iran’s past generations and their long shadows, she twirls through a heady autofiction.
Rules of the Assembly Line, at High Speed
Director of Photography
A small town in Western Germany is the last stop for 26,000 pigs per day and a brief home for masses of Eastern European temporary workers. The workers of the largest slaughterhouse in the country are fighting for survival, while German activists who stand up for their rights are fighting against the local authorities. At the same time, Munich high school students are working on the play "Saint Joan of the Stockyards" and trying to grasp the old text and German capitalism of our days. Interwoven with the young people's examination of the text in the rehearsals, the film deals in various fragments with conditions and facets of temporary work and labour migration in Germany.
Apocalypse Airlines
Director of Photography
A commercial for a fictive airline that confronts us with our own contradictions. Everyone wants to travel, discover the world, be free, consume, although we are aware of the environmental consequences of air travel. Are we ready to make compromises, in order to live responsibly? Should it be an individual or a political decision?