Susanne Brandstätter was among the many people for whom 9 November 2016 brought a rude awakening. She too had been planning to watch Hillary Clinton's acceptance address early that morning, only to discover that the country of her birth had chosen Donald Trump as the 58^th President of the USA. On the day of his inauguration two months later the filmmaker was already in the swing state of Ohio, to capture the euphoria among Trump voters and ask them about their motives. THIS LAND IS MY LAND is a film that listens.

Susanne Brandstätter über die Dreharbeiten zu THE FUTURE'S PAST ihrem Dokumentarfilm, der anlässlich des Khmer Rouge-Prozesses Kambodschas jüngere und ältere Generation in ihrem Umgang mit der Geschichte beobachtet.

«The three families in the film all have offspring under 26, who are only now – for the first time because of the Tribunal-learning what happened under the regime of the Khmer Rouge», Susanne Brandstätter on the filming of her documentary.