Transfer

Transfer

by | Feb 13, 2023

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Transfer

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
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Titus & Alfonso

Titus & Alfonso

by | Feb 13, 2023

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Titus & Alfonso

Marek, a small-time vaudeville performer, welcomes two children back from school to join their parents, who also work in vaudeville, in the deprived year of 1939. He gently tries to teach them about the deportation of their mother. Marek saves the life of his drunken father, who has destroyed his ventriloquist’s dummy in despair. Made up and costumed, he himself slips into their role and “throws” him the performance.

Some time later, in 1943, the year of the war, the two meet again. In a clinic, near Krakow, where the little boy apparently works, the ventriloquist performs on the occasion of a Christmas party. The children are also back, accompanying their father during the deprived war years.

Marek makes a mistake out of sheer shock and joy at the reunion – he spills a glass of champagne on the lap of the wife of a mysterious guest, which earns him the full wrath of the staff doctor. At dawn, he has the guards clear Marek’s room. But the soldiers find its bed empty. Despite the fact that they are following the ventriloquist’s truck, they cannot prevent him from paying Marek back for saving his life in the same way he did back then.

Marek hides in the children’s big teddy bear and is able to give a good turn to his destiny. Marek, the last remaining inmate of a former asylum for the handicapped, who was abused by the staff doctor to investigate the causes of short stature, thus escaped deportation to Auschwitz.

Credits

Cast: Axel Prahl, Manni Laudenbach, Max Volkert Martens, Arne Gentzsch, Andi Wittmann, Simone von Zglinicki, Klaus Kowatsch, Alfred Hartung

Screenplay: Martin Lehwald
Director: Martin Lehwald
Camera: Axel Fischer
Editing: Heike Ebner
Production design: Carola Gauster
Costume: Ingrida Bendzuk
Make-up: Julia Stefanie Lechner
Sound: David Ziegler
Production Management: Frank Zahl, Anita Schenk
Production management: Marcos Kantis
Producer: Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis, Michal Pokorny
Station: 13th Street
Supporters: Filmstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Production year: 2007

Festivalteilnahmen
  • Lakedance International Film Festival 2009
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LARA

LARA

by | Feb 13, 2023

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Lara

It is Lara’s sixtieth birthday, and actually she would have every reason to be happy, because her son Viktor is giving the most important piano concert of his career that evening. After all, it was she who designed and pushed his musical career. But Viktor has been unreachable for weeks and there is nothing to suggest that Lara will be welcome at his premiere. Without further ado, she buys all the remaining tickets and hands them out to everyone she meets that day. But the more Lara struggles to have a successful evening, the more events spiral out of control.

 

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Credits

Cast: Corinna Harfouch, Tom Schilling, André Jung, Volkmar Kleinert, Rainer Bock, Gudrun Ritter u.v.m.
Screenplay: Blaž Kutin
Director: Jan-Ole Gerster
Camera: Frank Griebe
Composer: Arash Safaian
Piano: Alice Sara-Ott
Editing: Isabel Meier
Production design: KD Gruber
Costume: Anette Guther
Supervising Sound Editor: Fabian Schmidt
Sound: Magnus Pflüger
Production Management: Dorissa Berninger
Line Producer: Charles E. Breitkreuz
Co-producers: Kalle Friz, Isabel Hund
Producers: Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny
Editors: Cooky Ziesche (rbb), Claudia Simionescu (BR), Andreas Schreitmüller (arte), Manuel Tanner (arte)
Broadcasters: rbb, BR, arte
Funded by: Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB)
German Film and Television Fund (DFFF)
German Federal Film Board (FFA)
The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM)
Central German Media Funding (MDM)
In cooperation with: The Post Republic Halle GmbH

Festival Participations
  • 43rd Göteborg Film Festival, 2020
  • 21st Festival del Cinema Europeo, 2020
  • Miami Film Festival, 2020
  • Palm Springs International Film Festival, 2020
  • Romy Awards (Austria), 2020
  • German Film Critics Association Awards, 2020
  • Bavarian Film Awards, 2020
  • German Film Awards, 2020
  • Chicago International Film Festival, 2019
  • 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2019
  • 37th Filmfest München, 2019
  • Manaki Brothers International Cinematographers’ Film Festival, 2019
  • Ljubljana International Film Festival, 2019
  • Haifa International Film Festival, 2019
  • 27th Hamptons International Film Festival, 2019
  • 15th Zurich Film Festival, 2019
  • 11th Les Arcs European Film Festival, 2019
  • El Gouna Film Festival, 2019
  • 64th Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci), 2019
  • Oldenburg International Film Festival, 2019
Awards
  • German Film Critics Association Awards, 2020: Best Actress – Corinna Harfouch
  • 21st Festival del Cinema Europeo, 2020:
    Special Jury Prize – Best Film
    SNGCI Award – Best European Actress (Corinna Harfouch)
  • Bavarian Film Awards, 2020:
    Best Film Score – Arash Safaian
  • 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2019:
    Special Jury Prize
    Best Actress – Corinna Harfouch
    Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  • 35th Ljubljana International Film Festival, 2019: Special Mention – Kingfisher Award (Blaž Kutin)
  • 37th Filmfest München, 2019:
    FIPRESCI Prize;
    New German Cinema Award – Best Director (Jan-Ole Gerster)
  • 11th Les Arcs European Film Festival, 2019: Press Prize
  • 27th Hamptons International Film Festival, 2019: Honorable Mention – Narrative Feature (Corinna Harfouch)
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Kohinoor

Kohinoor

by | Feb 13, 2023

Kohinoor

Kohinoor, a transwoman, lives in a seaside village in eastern India. Rejected by her lover Mrinal, who takes another wife, and haunted by ghosts of her past, Kohinoor sets off on a journey to look for her sister whom she had lost when she was still a young boy. A story about love, loss, friendship and community in which Kohinoor discovers her voice, becoming a beloved singer.

Credits

Director and screenplay: Udita Bhargava
Producer: Martin Lehwald (Schiwago Film)
Co-producers: Amour Fou (Bady Minck), VK Art & Design Private Limited 

Toubab

Toubab

by | Feb 13, 2023

Toubab

After his release from prison, Babtou is really looking forward to a new beginning: enjoying the freedom with his buddy Dennis, embracing the world – and having nothing to do with the authorities anymore. But incredibly, things go so wrong at his impromptu welcome party that Babtou finds himself in handcuffs again that same evening. With dramatic consequences: due to repeated delinquency, he is set to be deported to his “home country” of Senegal. But Babtou knows Senegal only from his father’s stories. He was born in Germany, his home is Frankfurt.

In order to prevent the impending deportation at the last minute, Babtou and Dennis are prepared to do anything…

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Credits

Cast: Farba Dieng, Julius Nitschkoff, Valerie Koch, Michael Maertens, Seyneb Saleh, Nina Gummich, Paul Wollin, Burak Yigit, Gerdy Zint, Mehmed Atesci

Script: Florian Dietrich & Arne Dechow
Director: Florian Dietrich
Camera: Max Preiss
Composer: Jacob Vetter
Editor: Jörg Volkmar, Florian Dietrich, Heike Parplies & Robert Kummer
Production design: Theresia Anna Ficus
Costume: Svenja Gassen
Make-Up: Nicolay Lissner
Sound: Julian Cropp
Mix: Adrian Baumeister
Production management: Frank Zahl
Line Producer: Charles E. Breitkreuz
Producer: Louise von Johnston
Producer: Schiwago Film (Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald)
Commissioning Editor: Jörg Schneider, ZDF
Olaf Grunert, ZDF / ARTE
Barbara Häbe, ARTE

Year of production: 2020

Festival Participations
  • German Acting Awards 2022
  • 26th Umbria Film Festival 2022
  • Mostra de Cinema de Expressão Alemã 2022
  • Sofia International Film Festival
  • 30th Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2021
  • Bavarian Film Awards 2021
  • 37th Warsaw International Film Festival 2021
  • New Faces Award 2021
  • Hessian Film and Cinema Award 2020
  • First Steps Award 2020
Awards
  • German Acting Awards 2022: Best Duo (Farba Dieng and Julius Nitschkoff)
  • 26th Umbria Film Festival: Audience Award
  • Mostra de Cinema de Expressão Alemã 2022: Audience Award
  • 30th Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern:
    NDR Director’s Award (Florian Dietrich);
    Best Acting Performance in a Feature Film (Farba Dieng, Julius Nitschkoff);
    Audience Award
  • Bavarian Film Awards 2021: Best Newcomer Actors (Julius Nitschkoff, Farba Dieng)
  • 37th Warsaw International Film Festival: Audience Award
  • New Faces Award 2021: Best Debut Film (Florian Dietrich)
Szene aus Ostfriesensünde
Szene aus Ostfriesensünde
Szene aus Ostfriesensünde
Szene aus Ostfriesensünde
Szene aus Ostfriesensünde
Szene aus Ostfriesensünde