Who knows how many films would have been lost forever if it weren’t for a lousy quality VHS tape? Frauen in Berlin is one such nearly lost work. The graduation project of Chetna Vora, a student from the Indian state of Gujarat, who had come to the German Democratic Republic through the nation’s foreign student programme. Originally she had set out to learn book printing, but after a while found herself at the GDR’s film school in Potsdam, Babelsberg, where she studied directing.