Liberated Space
The Buntentor is a women’s project that emerged from an occupied house in Bremen at the end of the 1980s. We show how the women independently created a space of freedom for themselves but also experience how their vision of a different life was destroyed by the closure of the house. Four former residents recall this time: Angie in her trailer, Andrea in her garden plot, Esther in her Berlin office, and the transman Luke in Hamburg, who at the time lived in the Buntentor as a woman. We accompany them in their current everyday lives.
Cast
- Andrea Wiese
- Andrea Wiese
- Angela Huber
- Angela Huber
- Esther Schaefer
- Esther Schaefer
- Luke Owald
- Luke Owald
Liberated Space
Vanessa Christoffers-Trinks, Katrin Stahrenberg
- Documentary
- Production Country / Year
- Germany 2025
- Language
- dt. OF m. engl. UT
- Format
- Digital file, Both, 86min
1.90:1, Discrete 5.1
- Original Title
- Freiraum
Director & Crew
Vanessa Christoffers-Trinks
Born in 1970 in Bremen. Studied Political Science at the University of Bremen. Video projects for the Open Channel Bremen. Active as a freelance writer, filmmaker and archive producer.
Filmography
| 2000 | Reiselust/voyages, voyages: San Francisco | TV-Dokumentation Co-Regie |
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| 2002 | Reiselust/voyages, voyages: Ecuador und Galapagos | TV-Dokumentation Co-Regie |
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| 2025 | Freiraum | Dokumentarfilm Co-Regie |
2025 |
Katrin Stahrenberg
Born in 1971 in Bremen. Lived at the Buntentor women’s project from 1989-1994. Trained as a Media Designer for images and sound. Active as a freelance film and video editor and director for therapeutic dance.
Filmography
| 2025 | Freiraum | Dokumentarfilm Co-Regie |
2025 |
“We met in 1993 during the turbulent phase before the clearance of the Buntentor. Katrin was a resident at the women’s project, Vanessa was one of the project’s supporters and filmed during a demonstration in support of the Buntentor. That’s how DER BUNTENTORFILM was made for the Open Channel Bremen in 1994. 25 years later, we asked ourselves what had become of these women and set out to find them. How did the project influence their lives? We have been working on this film idea since 2019. […] With the help of crowdfunding, a small post-production grant from the Senator for Culture in Bremen and a dedicated team, we produced the film ourselves and were able to complete our passion project in August 2025. […]”
- Director of Photography
- Kathrin Hartmann
- Editor
- Katrin Stahrenberg
- Sound Designer
- Tom Chapman
- Music Composer
- André Feldhaus
- Executive Producer
- Vanessa Christoffers-Trinks
- Katrin Stahrenberg
- Producer
- Vanessa Christoffers-Trinks
- Katrin Stahrenberg