MEMORY WARS

2025

MEMORY WARS follows renowned memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus into courtrooms and controversies. From Rodney King to Harvey Weinstein – a film about truth, trauma, and the power of forgetting.

Director: Hendrik Löbbert
Script: Caroline Ektander, Hendrik Löbbert
Cinematography: Hajo Schomerus
Editor: Yana Höhnerbach
Sound: Armin Badde
Sounddesign: Holger Buff
Music: Koxi & Antonio
Archive Producer: Vanessa Christophers
Producer: Erik Winker
A production by: CORSO Film
Funded by: Filmstiftung NRW, BKM, FFA, DFFF
Distributor: mindjazz
World Sales: NEW DOCS
Festivals: CPH:DOX, Ji.hlava

“Intriguing and manipulative – very skillfully edited”
Deutschlandradio Kultur

“With his film ‘Memory Wars’, German director Hendrik Löbbert delivers a portrait of the eminent psychologist without taking sides – outstanding”
TIP Berlin

“Hendrik Löbbert’s documentary gives the researcher room to unfold her theories and reveals the smears and campaigns of all those unwilling to hear counterarguments.”
arteschock

“A film about the fine line between justice and truth”
Süddeutsche Zeitung

“An uncomfortable subject, powerfully realized: ‘Memory Wars’”
Kölner Stadtanzeiger

“Worth seeing”
Cinema

“The film casts a critical light on the effects of trauma therapy on our memories and on society as a whole.”
Filmstarts.de

GRENZBOCK

2016

GRENZBOCK accompanies three hunters through their forests and reveals in long, quiet takes the worldviews behind their cock-and-bull stories and lode coats.

Director: Hendrik Löbbert
Script: Hendrik Löbbert
Production: Wüste Film West
Producer: Kristina Löbbert
Commissioning Editors: Christian von Behr, Jens Stubenrauch (RBB)
Cinematography: Hajo Schomerus
Film Editing: Anja Siemens
Sound: Jörg Kidrowski, Till Röllinghoff
Music: Bernd Schurer
Supported by: Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB), Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), DEFA-Stiftung
Distribution: Farbfilm Verleih
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Festivals: Hofer Filmtage, Natur Vision

“Grenzbock” targets the whole of society, whose current exclusions and debates about maximum limits – for example in the hunters’ slur about the evil foreign wolf – find surprisingly apt metaphors in the film. Tagesspiegel

“With his debut film, »Grenzbock«, Hendrik Löbbert, born in 1979, has created a visually fascinating essay about the forest, wildlife, and hunting. Its cool enigmatic quality and occasional human humor are reminiscent of the early, unsettling documentaries of the young Werner Herzog, and its monumental tranquility brings the landscape and the bureaucracy of hunting to life.”
Wolfram Schütte

"It's about a passion, a feeling, it's about the hunter approaching his prey – quite literally and also metaphysically."
Kino-Zeit

„Löbbert hat visuell einen wundervoll gezeichneten Dokumentarfilm geschaffen, der unabhängig von der Thematik ein Fest für die Sinne ist.“
Filmspleen