Unsichtbare Spuren

Documentary Based On A True Story

Finding Inspiration in Every Turn

I grew up without knowing my Biological father.

I only knew that he was German, that he traveled to the Dominican Republic shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and that he disappeared before I was born.

For many years, this felt like a private story -- something personal, even shameful. Only later did I understand that my life is connected to a much larger historical moment.

In 1989, Europe opened its borders. Freedom, mobility, and possibility expanded overnight. But this freedom did not exist in isolation. It encountered places shaped by economic inequality and limited choices. It created encounters -- some loving, some transactional -- and sometimes, children.

I am one of them.

This Documentary Film is my attempt to understand what absence means when it is rooted in history. It is a search for my father, but also a search for context:

How do political shifts shape private lives? What happens when freedom is lived without responsibility?

And what remains decades later, when the moment has passed but its consequences have not? I am not looking for a verdict. I am looking for traces -- emotional, historical, human.

This film is an invitation to listen.

THE FILM

November 1989. Sosúa, Dominican Republic. My mother meets a German man traveling freely for the first time in his life -- the Wall has just fallen. What begins as a transaction turns into something more -- something fragile and human. When she becomes pregnant, contact collapses -- jealousy, fear, a missed flight.

Years later, I learn something I was never meant to know: around 2000, he returned to Sosúa. He searched for me. He left his contact information with Julie.

My grandmother threw it away.

Now I am 35, living in Germany, and in search for the man who once searched for me.

The only lead may be Julie -- a former translator, and possibly the last person who remembers his name if she is still alive.

THE QUESTION

What happens when freedom creates a life and then walks away? The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is remembered as a triumph of freedom. But that freedom also produced lives, separations, and absences beyond Germany’s borders. Who is responsible for these consequences and on what terms?

WHY NOW

Thirty-five years after 1989, Europe continues to celebrate freedom, mobility, and open borders. But many of the personal consequences of that moment remain unseen.

This film connects a global political shift to its intimate aftermath. It does not accuse -- it asks. It brings a hidden story into view, linking European history with lived experience beyond its borders.

AN INVITATION

This project is in development.

I am currently seeking collaborators, producers, co-production partners, and funding bodies interested in intimate, politically grounded storytelling. If this story resonates with you, I would love to connect.

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