The farmschool Baumgartsbrunn is a picturesque place in Namibia, a country in the South-West of Africa. Visitors are able to spot the distinctive white-steepled church of Baumgartsbrunn from far. With its red roof, it pokes out of the vital green savannah of the Khomas Highland. After emigrating to Namibia the german couple Helmut und Gertraude Bleks founded the school on their farmground in the seventies of the nineteenth century. Today, the school consists of two institutions: a Primary School for learners from grade one to seven and the Institute for Home Science and Agriculture, which trains joung women from Namibia and whole Southern Africa. In total, more than 400 learners, as well as numerous teachers and workers are living with there familys in the schoolvillage which is situated about 40 km West of Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. Many of the children come originally from the Farmland around Baumgartsbrunn. Their parents work on the neigbouring farms as common farmworkes and often can’t even afford the school fees of their kids corresponding approximately 6€ per term. The schoolvillage is the perfect location for the film „About those two who stole the moon”. Here you find a picturesque place, inbetween the Savannah of the Namibian highlands, and isolated from city life, Here you meet very poor children who merely dispose of anything which most people consider as self-evident. Nevertheless they exude that much joy and self-confidence that one can marvel This place, where the moon indeed disappears close behind the hills every night, shall be the location to realise our screenplay „about those two who stole the moon“.


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