by schiwagofilmadmin | Feb 13, 2023
Frederike and Fabian, both 10 years old, secretly plan an experiment. They want to beam away their friend Jonathan, also 10 years old. The experiment goes wrong and instead of the boy, suddenly all the people in the village have disappeared. The school is also completely empty.
While searching for the causes, they discover images on television of people climbing up the Berlin Wall and driving their Trabbis toward the border. The children realize that they have accidentally beamed all the people to West Berlin. They must repeat the experiment to save their parents and neighbors. An adventurous retelling of the events of November 9, 1989.
Credits
Cast: Isabelle Kühn, Elias Mavriki, Till Valentin Winter
Screenplay: Markus Dietrich, Hanna Reifgerst
Director: Markus Dietrich
Camera: Urs Zimmermann
Composer: Philipp E. Kümpel, Andreas Moisa
Editing: Andreas Baltschun
Production design: Asja Neumann
Costume: Christian Röhrs
Make-up: Manuela Bruns
Sound: Thomas Pfeiffer
Production Management: Hanna Reifgerst
Production management: Alexander Wadouh
Executive producer: Michael Schiering
Producer: Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny
Sponsor: Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Production year: 2009
Festivalteilnahmen
- Berlinale – Nomination for the Berlin Today Award
- Filmfest Dresden
- Mo & Friese – KinderKurzFilmFestival Hamburg
- FEST – International Film Festival Portugal
- Munich Film Festival
- Ourense International Film Festival
- Chicago International Children`s Film Festival
- KuKi – Children’s Film Festival
- Istanbul Children’s Film Festival
- Falsstaff International Film Festival
- Michael Moore’s Traverse City Festival
- Festival jeunesse Carrousel Rimouski
- Cinemagic Belfast
- Cleveland International Film Festival
by schiwagofilmadmin | Feb 13, 2023
When Susanne crashes through the emergency room doors, heavily pregnant, she is completely unprepared and panics. In a fit of hysteria – labor is just beginning – she gets a revelation: she needn’t worry, because the child is preordained. 12 years later, Susanne is looking forward to a fresh start. After a long period of abstinence, she has renewed hope for a working relationship. But her son, whom she has considered a genius since the revelation, writes unreadable essays and his teacher wants to transfer him to a special school. Susanne and Jonathan are cramming for their lives.
This film is a collaboration between director Johan Carlsen and Cornelia and Christopher Kwanka, a single mother and her son living in Berlin-Lichtenberg. Conny and Christopher depict scenes from Johan’s childhood, as well as from their own experiences. They play Jonathan and Susanne, a mother and son who fight a battle for recognition and balance.
Credits
Cast: Christopher Kwanka, Conny Kwanka, Sam Louwyck
Screenplay: Johan Carlsen
Director: Johan Carlsen
Camera: Armin Dierolf
Editing: Johan Carlsen
Production design: Stefan Oppenländer
Costume: Lea Walloschke
Make-up: Christina Wagner, Milena Pfleiderer, Katja Schulze
Sound: Martin Hertel, Juri von Krause
Production Management: Nicolai Zeitler
Production management: Birgit Weingärtner
Executive producer: Till Rothmund
Co-producer: Christian Schulzki (ariane-film gmbh), German Film and Television Academy Berlin, Makrorama
Producer: Martin Lehwald
Commissioning Editor: ZDF – Das kleine Fernsehspiel, Frank Seyberth
Station: ZDF
Funded by: Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderungsanstalt
Production year: 2011
Festivalteilnahmen
- 45th Hof Film Days
- IBAFF Int. Film Festival
by schiwagofilmadmin | Feb 13, 2023
When Dutch-born Muslim girl Laila (18) feels less and less at home in the Netherlands, she slowly but surely becomes involved with a group of extremists and radicalizes. She encounters a world that nurtures her ideas initally, but finally confronts her with an impossible choice.
Credits
Cast: Nora el Koussour, Ilias Addab
Screenplay: Jan Eilander, Mijke de Jong
Director: Mijke de Jong
Camera: Danny Elsen SBC
Composer: Can Erdogan
Editing: Dorith Vinken NCE
Production design: Jorien Sont
Costume: Jacqueline Steijlen
Mask: Trudy Buren
Sound: Joost Roskam
Mix: Alek Goosse
Producer: Jet Christiaanse, Chantal Nissen, Rula Nasser
Co-producer: Menuet, Chromosom Film, The Imaginarium Films, NTR, Schiwago Film
Producer: Topkapi Films
Production year: 2016
Festival Participations
- 37th Filmfest München, 2017
- Nederlands Film Festival, 2017
- Palm Springs International Film Festival, 2017
- Cairo International Film Festival, 2016
- Chicago International Film Festival, 2016
- Gijón International Film Festival, 2016
- BFI London Film Festival, 2016
- Philadelphia Film Festival, 2016
- Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), 2016
- 8th Les Arcs European Film Festival, 2016
Awards
- Nederlands Film Festival, 2017:
Best Actress – Nora El Koussour
Best Supporting Actor – Mohammed Azaay
- 37th Filmfest München, 2017:
Fritz Gerlich Prize – Mijke de Jong
- Philadelphia Film Festival, 2016:
Jury Special Award for Outstanding Performance – Nora El Koussour
- Les Arcs European Film Festival, 2016:
Audience Award – Mijke de Jong
Best Actress – Nora El Koussour
by schiwagofilmadmin | Feb 13, 2023
Screenplay: Christoph Silber, Dörte Franke, Martin Lehwald
Director: Martin Lehwald
An emigrated German returns in 1947 as an officer in the U.S. Army and is assigned to oversee the denazification camp at Göggingen. There he befriends the wife of a high Nazi chargé, who uses him to escape with her husband.
by schiwagofilmadmin | Feb 13, 2023
Germany in the near future. With the personality transfer, the genetic engineering company “Menzana” succeeds in taking the decisive step towards eternal youth. For the very old Hermann and his seriously ill wife Anna, the age-old dream of eternal life comes true. At “Menzana” they buy the young, attractive bodies of Apolain and Sarah for a million euros. The transfer gives Hermann and Anna control over the two black Africans during the day. Only at night can Apolain and Sarah be themselves again for four hours …
Damir Lukačević’s second feature film consistently rethinks our youth cult and the already flourishing trade in human organs from the Third World in a multi-layered and frightening vision of the future.
Credits
Cast: BJ Britt, Regine Nehy, Ingrid Andree, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Jeanette Hain, Mehmet Kurtuluş, Ulrich Voß
Screenplay: Damir Lukačević, Gabi Blauert, Gerald Klein
Director: Damir Lukačević
Camera: Francisco Dominguez
Composer: Enis Rotthoff
Editing: Frank Brummundt
Production design: Tom Hornig
Costume: Annemarie Laber
Make-up: Elisabeth Bigalke, Eva Schubert, Dana Bieler
Sound: Steffen Graubaum, Martin Hertel
Production management: Nicolai Zeitler, Till Rothmund
Producer: Marcos Kantis
Commissioning Editor: ZDF – Das kleine Fernsehspiel: Christian Cloos, ARTE: Doris Hepp, Birgit Kämper
Broadcaster: ZDF, ARTE
Funding: Baden-Württemberg Film Fund, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, German Federal Film Board, German Federal Film Fund
Production year: 2010
Preise
- Audience Award, Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- Best Sci-Fi Feature Film Award, Shriekfest Los Angeles
- Asteroid Award, Science+Fiction Festival Trieste
- Baden-Württemberg Film Award, Filmschau Baden-Württemberg
- Silver Mélies, Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival
Festivalteilnahmen
- International Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival of Athens (winner of the Audience Award)
- Film Art Festival Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Emden Film Festival
- Shanghai International Film Festival (Panorama)
- Festival Int. du film fantastique de Neuchatel
- Pula Film Festival
- Vancouver Int. Film Festival
- Fantastisk Film Festival Lund
- Fantastic Fest Austin
- Vancouver Int. Film Festival
- Shriekfest – Los Angeles
- Mostra Internacional De Cinema
- Biberach Film Festival
- Science+Fiction Trieste
- Festival Cinéma Science Bordeaux
- Film show Baden-Wuerttemberg
- Washington DC International Film Festival
- Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival
- Sci-Fi London
- Grossmann Fantastic Film & Wine Festival
- Fresh Film Fest Prague
- Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film
- Scottsdale Film Festival
- Gwacheon International Science Fiction Festival
- Trenton International Film Festival
- The Israeli International Science Fiction Festival
- SPASM film festival Montreal
- Film Society New York
- Vilnius International Film Festival
- Edinburgh International Science Festival
