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Comments on the films

Shortcut to Justice

Shortcut to Justice is a moving documentary. Hardly another documentary shows the reality of daily life in poor indian city quarters in such a sensible, yet unprettified manner. ... The filmmakers Daniel Burkholz and Sybille Fezer leave it to the audience to form an opinion. They do not give comments but try to give the Women for Justice that necessary attention, which those need for their work.
Andrea Niederfriniger, www.filmreporter.de

Your sovereign compassion with the destiny of the ­women in „Shortcut to Justice“ reminds me of what Robert Flaherty, a pioneer of the ethnologic film, said  „The task of a film creator is to find an event, and if only a moment, in which the ‚core of greatness‘ is revealed“.
Peter Lilienthal, Filmmaker

A wonderful and encouraging example for women‘s initiatives against violence.
Yakin Ertürk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women

One has already seen such pictures, but this story is unknown yet. Right here, a platform for social empowerment has been created that could set a precedent for the whole world.
Oliver Händler in Neues Deutschland

Finally good news about India ! This movie doesn´t tell that it has been shot by Western moviemakers.
Ujjwal Bhattacharya, Deutsche Welle

A marvellous movie about the power of solidarity.
Manfred F. Kubiak in Heidenheimer Zeitung

One of the highlights of the „Halbtotale-Filmfestival Münster“ is the documentary movie Shortcut to Justice“ by Daniel Burkholz and Sybille Fezer who walk along with the “Women for Justice” in the northwest of India.
Dr. Hans Gerhold in Westfälische Nachrichten

Shortcut to Justice (in turkish: "Kisa Yoldan Adalet") found entrance into the feature of "Hurriyet", the newspaper with the biggest circulation in Turkey and also Germany. We feel honoured.

Brigadistas

In opposite to Oliver Stone´s film “Comandante” he leads the camera gentle, as if he had to adapt to his interview-partners movements. Because he is always very close to his protagonists with his camera, he strengthens the impression for the viewers that they are standing directly nearby. He underpins this naturalness by preferring subtitles instead of a synchronization for the interviews.
Ingo Niebel, 14th of July in Junge Welt

BRIGADISTAS is an important contribution to the European culture of memories.Prof. Dr. Ignacio Sotelo, Freie Universität Berlin (Free University Berlin) 
  
Burkholz and his co-writer Heike Geisweid renounce to use the typical historical black-white footage. They let the story be told by the Brigadistas themselves … the Brigadistas will leave us – but Burkholz´ film will remain. By doing so, he put up a monument for these people.
Franz Lindenthal, 13th of July in Neue Rheinische Zeitung

From Madrid over Zaragoza to Barcelona the camera of the German changes into the inseparable companion of this group of fighters. They see the camera as kind of an ally and by doing so, they create a strong connection with the viewer.
Itziar Reyero, 18th of January 2008 in El Pais