Birgitt Kilian

Películas

Rabiye Kurnaz contra George W. Bush
Costume Design
Rabiye Kurnaz es una mujer aparentemente corriente, excepto porque es un terremoto. Cuidando de sus hijos y mucho más, es la que lleva la batuta en su casa de Bremen. Poco después de los ataques del 11-S, en 2001, su hijo Murat es acusado de terrorismo y es uno de los primeros enviados a la cárcel de Guantánamo. Esto marca el inicio de un viaje hacia el corazón de la política mundial para esta decidida mujer alemana-turca. Acompañada del abogado de derechos humanos Bernhard Docke, luchará por la liberación de su hijo.
Weißbier im Blut
Costume Design
Kreuzeder was once a successful commissioner, but now he rarely solves a case. After more than 20 years in the service, he just wants to retire as quickly as possible and leave everyday life in the homicide squad in Lower Bavaria behind. Kreuzeder is of the opinion that humanity is coming to an end anyway, so he prefers to get drunk in the tavern and flirt with the waitress Gerda Bichler there instead of going about his work.
A Voluntary Year
Costume Designer
Encouraged by her father who hopes to save her from a life in the provinces, Jette is about to spend a year volunteering overseas. But love stands in the way of her father's plans, and she no longer knows what she wants.
Estaba en casa, pero...
Costume Design
Astrid vive en Berlín junto a sus dos hijos, Flo y Phillip. Tras la muerte de su esposo, un famoso director teatral, intenta recomponer su vida y sobrellevar su ausencia. En la intimidad, la familia libra una lucha cotidiana en donde las actividades más simples se convierten en retos inesperados: la compra de una bicicleta, un baño en la piscina o una representación escolar de Hamlet. El frágil equilibrio se derrumba cuando Phillip se escapa de casa...
Casting
Costume Design
For her first television film, director Vera wants the perfect cast. But the first day of shooting is fast approaching and the numerous casting sessions have yet to find a suitable actress to play the leading role. Although the producer and crew are getting ever more exasperated with Vera, Gerwin is happy about the extra work, as he earns his money as an audition reader, delivering the lines of dialogue to the starry candidates at the various castings. When the male lead suddenly has to back out, Gerwin thinks that this might just be his chance.
The Dreamed Path
Costume Design
Una semblanza del desencanto y del fin del amor a través de dos parejas, dos historias separadas por treinta años. Grecia, 1984. Kenneth, inglés, y Theres, alemana. Mochila al hombro, se ganan su sustento cantando en un parque. Cuando Kenneth tiene que partir porque su madre está en el hospital, algo difícil de recuperar se rompe. Treinta años más tarde, Ariane, actriz de televisión, deja a su marido tras una crisis matrimonial. En el Berlín de 2014, ambas historias confluirán.
Daughters
Costume Design
Agnes, a teacher from the Hessian provinces, has come to Berlin to identify a dead girl who might be Lydia, her runaway daughter. It turns out not to be Lydia, but Agnes stays in the city anyway. Still frantically looking, she comes a young stray called Ines who no longer leaves her side...
Sleeping Sickness
Costume Design
Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde’s ex-pat community. She can’t bear the separation from her 14-year-old daughter, Helen, who is attending boarding school in Germany. Ebbo must give up his life in Africa or he risks losing the woman he loves. But his fear of returning to a land now remote to him increases with each passing day. Years later. Alex Nzila, a young French doctor of Congolese origin, travels to Cameroon to evaluate a development project. It’s been a long time since he set foot on this continent, but, instead of finding new prospects, he encounters a destructive, lost man. Like a phantom, Ebbo slips away from his evaluator.
Madonnas
Costume Design
A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother.
Windows on Monday
Costume Design
A new house in a new town could mean the beginning of a phase of domestic bliss for a small family. Nina, a doctor, has taken a few days off. Her husband Frieder is busy laying tiles, while their daughter Charlotte plays in her new room. But Nina is having her doubts; she stands about in the half-empty rooms, feeling thoroughly alienated. Suddenly, without saying a word, she decides to leave...
Bungalow
Costume Design
A major work of the celebrated Berlin School, the debut of Ulrich Köhler (In My Room) is a mesmerizing portrait of a young German soldier named Paul who goes AWOL and returns to his childhood home in the countryside. Over a few summer days, Paul evades the responsibilities of everyday life and falls in love with his brother’s girlfriend, disrupting the lives of everyone in his circle. With Köhler’s penchant for deadpan humor and subtle performances, Bungalow becomes a quiet mockery of militarism, familial estrangement, and youthful ennui.