Film Screening: PETRA KELLY - ACT NOW!
Tues., September 16, 2025
7:00 - 9:00 pm ET (US)
Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University Campus
About the Event
Join CGES for a film screening of 2024 film, PETRA KELLY - ACT NOW (90 minutes), directed by Doris Metz.Petra Kelly, co-founder of the German Green Party, was a pioneering advocate for peace, environmental protection, and human rights. Inspired by the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King’s concept of civil disobedience, she championed radical social change and solidarity worldwide. Her issues are today more topical than ever before.
Watch the trailer here.
About the Director
Doris Metz was born in Oberstdorf, Bavaria, Germany. She writes and directs documentary films and is a producer for cinema and television. Prior to this, she was a writer and editor for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in the field of media and politics for ten years. After the fall of the Berlin Wall up until the reunification of Germany, she worked as a reporter for the Süddeutsche Zeitung covering the former GDR. In 2005, she shot a widely acclaimed cinema documentary film – SCHATTENVÄTER (Ghost Fathers) – about Matthias Brandt and Pierre Boom, the sons of Willy Brandt and GDR spy Günter Guillaume. TRANS – I GOT LIFE, her most recent cinema documentary film, for which she teamed up with co-director Imogen Kimmel, follows the lives of seven transgender people in Munich, Moscow and San Francisco and the different paths they take to become the person they really are. This highly relevant plea for freedom, self-determination and a more tolerant society received the Audience Award (Bayern2 and SZ Audience Award) at the Munich International Film Festival 2021 and was shown at many other international festivals. PETRA KELLY – ACT NOW! will be the fourth cinema film that Doris Metz has made with renowned cinematographer Sophie Maintigneux. In 2017, Doris Metz founded Kimmel & Metz Filmproduktion together with Imogen Kimmel. https://www.kimmel-metz-film.de/