Christof Schaefer

Kusum, Vijay, and Rahul are scared of losing their homes. They live in Kathputli Colony, Delhi’s largest community of traditional artists. Puppeteers, singers, dancers and daily wage workers from all over India live here. But the government has decided to demolish the colony and resettle the people in high rises. Kusum, Vijay, and Rahul soon find themselves at the centre of a spirited and creative resistance movement against the government’s plans.

Nearing the end of a long and successful stage career, Miriam Goldschmidt finds her prowess as an actress increasingly on the wane. She struggles to memorize her lines and as her last project with lifelong collaborator, the legendary director Peter Brook, threatens to fall apart, Miriam looks back. Referencing Brook’s ground-breaking book «The Empty Space», she uses an empty rehearsal room in Berlin to invoke her archetypal life journey that took an orphaned black child from post-war Germany to the world’s biggest stages. We «Call Her Miriam» is a bewitching and moving portrait of a great artist living between dream and reality, truth and fction and life and death.

Kusum, Vijay, and Rahul are scared of losing their homes. They live in Kathputli Colony, Delhi’s largest community of traditional artists. Puppeteers, singers, dancers and daily wage workers from all over India live here. But the government has decided to demolish the colony and resettle the people in high rises. Kusum, Vijay, and Rahul soon find themselves at the centre of a spirited and creative resistance movement against the government’s plans.

Kusum, Vijay, and Rahul are scared of losing their homes. They live in Kathputli Colony, Delhi’s largest community of traditional artists. Puppeteers, singers, dancers and daily wage workers from all over India live here. But the government has decided to demolish the colony and resettle the people in high rises. Kusum, Vijay, and Rahul soon find themselves at the centre of a spirited and creative resistance movement against the government’s plans.

Nearing the end of a long and successful stage career, Miriam Goldschmidt finds her prowess as an actress increasingly on the wane. She struggles to memorize her lines and as her last project with lifelong collaborator, the legendary director Peter Brook, threatens to fall apart, Miriam looks back. Referencing Brook’s ground-breaking book «The Empty Space», she uses an empty rehearsal room in Berlin to invoke her archetypal life journey that took an orphaned black child from post-war Germany to the world’s biggest stages. We «Call Her Miriam» is a bewitching and moving portrait of a great artist living between dream and reality, truth and fction and life and death.

Nearing the end of a long and successful stage career, Miriam Goldschmidt finds her prowess as an actress increasingly on the wane. She struggles to memorize her lines and as her last project with lifelong collaborator, the legendary director Peter Brook, threatens to fall apart, Miriam looks back. Referencing Brook’s ground-breaking book «The Empty Space», she uses an empty rehearsal room in Berlin to invoke her archetypal life journey that took an orphaned black child from post-war Germany to the world’s biggest stages. We «Call Her Miriam» is a bewitching and moving portrait of a great artist living between dream and reality, truth and fction and life and death.