Oliver Hardt on

BLACK DEUTSCHLAND:

"My documentary film BLACK GERMANY is an intimate study of how a not so small minority in Germany thinks and feels. What interests me is how images and counter-images, life-plans and their reflection in the media mutually condition one another. How all of this becomes a social reality in which age-old clichés and prejudices continue to exist quite independent of people's good or bad intentions. And above all there's the question whether it is possible not to be racist in a society that defines itself as white."