Films
Gekommen, um zu bleiben
Here to stay
Feature-Length Documentary
Direction: Maya Perusin Mysorekar
Synopsis: Barbara and Shireen embark on a new chapter by returning to the places tied to their family histories. As Jewish lesbians of color, they have created their own universe of tenderness and resilience. Now, in retirement and back in Berlin — the country that once rejected them — they begin transforming fragments of their past into an artistic narrative.
Writing residencies:
• La Passerelle by Périphérie Documentary Film, 2022
• Documentary writing training by Ardèche Images, 2024
• Rencontres Premiers Films by Ardèche Images, 2024
• Developing the dramaturgy of a project in the public space by FAI-AR, 2026
→ Currently in pre-production
Bis ein Chor aus Stimmen ertönt
Until a chorus of voices emerges
06’17’’
Graduation Documentary Film
2018
Production: Freie Universität Berlin
Direction, Sound, Image and Editing: Maya Perusin Mysorekar
Synopsis: This is an experimental short film that deals with the resistance of two Black German women in my family and the forms of resistance that shape their lives. The protagonists are Sheila Mysorekar, who wrote the text ‘Resistance. Poetry of Survival,’ which she read aloud for this short film; the other is Diana Munyakazi, who danced her thesis ‘Coming Out’ on the subject of racism at the Palucca University of Dance in Dresden in 1992, the film adaptation of which was available to me as archive material. Both works of art merge in this short film to create a new work that not only reflects their resistance, but is also resistance itself.
Festivals:
• Festival Garces (France) 2023
Therapy and me
26’28’’
Episode from the documentary series Psyche
2025
Broadcast: Arte
Production: Berlin Producers
Direction: Maya Perusin Mysorekar and Alba Vivancos Folch
Synopsis: Many people share the view that only crazy people go to psychotherapists or even that it does not work. But the statistics show that psychotherapy overwhelmingly works. Patients and therapists share their experiences and talk about the challenges of dealing with one’s mental health.
Une Lutte Enchantée
An Enchanted Fight
29’53’’
Graduation Documentary Film
2021
Production: Aix-Marseille University
Direction: Maya Perusin Mysorekar
Synopsis: An Argentine activist recalls old melodies, while a choir in Marseille organises itself to support resistance movements. Why fight by singing? What do these songs convey? The director explores the relationship between music, politics and emotion in a personal way.
Distribution: Le Cinéma Voyageur Du Collectif Audiovisuel Synaps
Festivals and Screenings (non-exhaustive selection):
• International Film Festival Of Active Non-Violence (Polycentric → Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Spain And Mexico) 2022
• Shorts – Tri-National Film Festival (Germany) 2022
• One Earth Awards (United States) 2022
• Cefalù Film Festival (Italy) 2022
• CMCA MED (France) 2022
• International Ethnographic Film Festival (Korea) 2022
• Festival Internacional De Cine Austral (Argentina) 2022
• Clapperboard Golden Festival (Brazil) 2022
• Third Annual Social And Economic Justice Film Festival (United States) 2022
• Karnataka International Youth Short Film Festival – Best Director Award (India) 2022
• High Tatras Film And Video Festival – Best Student Film Award (Slovakia) 2022
• Lieux Fictifs @ Centre Pénitentiaire de Marseille-Baumettes (France) 2023
• Protopost – International Film Festival On Communism – Best Documentary Award (Italy) 2023
• Chantier Du Réel Festival (France) 2023
• Les Courts Des Réalisatrices Du Sud @ Couvent Levant (France) 2024
Un moment de grève
A Strike Moment
10’22’’
Student Documentary Film
2019
Production: Aix-Marseille University
Director: Maya Perusin Mysorekar
Synopsis: Visible or invisible work, paid or unpaid work, material or immaterial work, traditional or new work, etc. Working does not only mean doing one’s job, but also being part of society and helping to shape it. Strikes have always played an important role in enabling workers to defend themselves or fight for their rights. On 5 December 2019, an indefinite strike began throughout France.
The aim of this inter-professional mobilisation was to challenge the proposed pension reforms. The CGT Cheminots union also called for mobilisation. Here, I film the work of organising a railway strike. I question the strike as a moment of work: a moment of collective protest, like work for work’s sake. If people come together collectively to maintain or improve their working conditions, it is because work is being invented in part at that moment.
Screenings:
• Lyra Ciné Club @ Solarium (France) 2026
Quelle démocratie ?
Which democracy?
10’50’’
Student Documentary Film
2020
Production: Aix-Marseille University
Directors: Maya Perusin Mysorekar and Clara Ciccone Blanco
Synopsis: This chapter of the mosaic film « Filming politics » deals with Marseille’s municipal election system and the extent to which voters of my generation are informed about it and think critically about it. In Marseille, as well as in Paris and Lyon, there is a special electoral system that allows election results to differ when votes are counted. In addition, the responsibilities and division of tasks among the various elements are very complex.
Reliefs numériques
Digital reliefs
06’52’’
Student Documentary Film
2019
Production: Aix-Marseille University
Direction, sound, image and editing: Maya Perusin Mysorekar, Antonin Erat and Arthur Thomas
Synopsis: During the ‘Instants vidéos’ festival, three of us students were invited to make a documentary film about the reception of an experimental audiovisual work in a venue not accustomed to hosting art. Stray Dog 2 by François Lejault is screened at the ADPEI, a centre that aims to provide access to digital technology to people who are isolated from it. For a week, we asked the audience about their feelings towards this work and examined it through observational shots.
ბიბლიოთეკა, գրադարան, библиотека – Rouge du soir, bon espoir
Library – Red at dusk, hope follows
10’40”
Creative Short Documentary
2023
Auto-Production
Direction: Maya Perusin Mysorekar and Juri Wasenmüller
Sound and Image: Maya Perusin Mysorekar
Synopsis: In Shaumiani, a small Georgian village on the border with Armenia and Azerbaijan, four women watch over the Armenian, Russian and Georgian books in the library, the last public place in their village.
Filmer le racisme
Filming racism (Working title)
42’23”
Creative Short Documentary
2026
Production: This documentary project was initiated by and made during a two weeks residency with the festival Regarde Sous Tes Fênetres.
Direction, Sound, Image and Editing: Maya Perusin Mysorekar
Synopsis: In Château Arnoux Saint Auban, a small village in the south of France mostly built for the workers of a petrochimical factory during the first world war, the villagers share their past and present experiences of racism and their sentiment of belonging.
