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Watch anywhereArrested by the Stasi in 1984 for wanting to leave East Germany, filmmaker Sibylle Schönemann is later freed and, after the Wall falls, returns to confront her former captors and collaborators.
AWARDS: German Film Award in Silver for Best Documentary. German Film Award / Prix AFJ du Documentaire. Créteil International Women’s Film Festival / Mayer’s Prize. Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival / Silver Dove. DOK Leipzig
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival / Dok.fest Munich / Berlin International Film Festival / Sofia International Film Festival / Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival / International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam / New York Film Festival / DOK Leipzig
Locked-Up Time - Facing the past, one question at a time
In 1984, documentary filmmaker Sibylle Schönemann applied to emigrate from East to West Germany. Instead of freedom, she was arrested by the Stasi and sentenced to prison for the so-called crime of “interfering with state activities.”
A year later, West Germany bought her release, and she rebuilt her life on the other side of the border. But with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Schönemann returns to the East, camera in hand, to confront those responsible for her ordeal.
Former colleagues, guards, and secret police officers are asked to account for their actions. Some refuse to speak, others attempt justification, and a few reveal the weight of complicity. The result is a stark, unflinching portrait of personal and political reckoning, where memory, guilt, and silence collide.
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