No Dogs Allowed

by Antonia Gronau | Sep 21, 2023

No Dogs Allowed

Since 15-year-old Gabo has known about his paedophilic tendencies, he has tried to control and hide his needs.

He confides neither to his friends nor to his mother or sister – the fear of the reactions is too great.

He finds support and a listening ear in online chat forums, where he also meets the much older Dave. However, Dave takes advantage of Gabo’s insecurity and a toxic power dynamic develops. When Dave is suddenly arrested by the police on suspicion of abusing minors, Gabo has to make a decision.

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Credits

Cast: Carlo Krammling (Gabo), Robin Sondermann (Dave), Katharina Marie Schubert (Susanne), Sean Douglas (Sebbo), Bineta Hansen (Emi), Sithembile Menck (Frau Juhasz), and many more

Screenplay: Stephan Kämpf
Director: Steve Bache
Camera: Manuel Meinhardt
Production design: Anika Klatt
Costume: Stephanie Zurstegge
Sound: Markus Rebholz
Cutter: Maximilian Merth
Music: Andreas Pfeiffer
Casting: Johanna Hellwig
Production Management: Anna Tzellou
Producer: Stella Wejchert
Producers: Schiwago Film (Felix Ruple, Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald)
Editing: Melvina Kotios (ZDF)

Year of production: 2023

Photos: © Schiwago Film

Awards

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024: Best First Feature Film Award
Filmschau Baden-Württemberg 2024: Best Feature Film
Roze Filmdagen 2025: Best Feature Film
Festival International Music & Cinema Marseille 2025: Special Mention – Feature Film Competition
Riviera International Film Festival 2025:
Best Actor (Carlo Krammling),
Audience Award

Festival Participation

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024
European Film Festival Göttingen 2024
Filmschau Baden-Württemberg 2024
Roze Filmdagen 2025
Festival International Music & Cinema Marseille 2025
INPUT Conference Bilbao 2025
Riviera International Film Festival 2025
International Film and Human Rights
Festival of Valencia – HUMANS FEST 2025

Ostfriesenwut

by Antonia Gronau | Apr 13, 2023

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Ostfriesenwut

A fisherman discovers a dead body in the mudflats. At the same time, blackmailers deposit samples of biological warfare agents in a newspaper. This calls Inspector Ann Kathrin Klaasen onto the scene.
The drinking water throughout East Frisia is to be poisoned. The samples found are genuine, and what nobody suspects is that the two cases are directly connected. During the investigation, her former boss, Ubbo Heide, becomes Ann Kathrin’s target. What does he know?

The investigation brings to light a supposedly minor matter. Is the murderer of Ann Kathrin’s father, Wolfgang Steinhausen, still on the loose?

Credits

Cast: Picco von Groote, Christian Erdmann, Barnaby Metschurat, Kai Maertens, Marie Schöneburg, Birge Schade, Jan Henrik Stahlberg, Stefan Kurz, Victoire Laly, Lili Zahavi, Paul Wollin, Christian Ahlers, Athena Strates, Andreas Euler uvm.

Screenplay: Christian Limmer
Based on the novel by: Klaus-Peter Wolf
Director: Christine Repond
Camera: Dorothea Götz
Composer: Stefan Will
Editing: Ulrike Tortora
Production design: Juliane Friedrich
Costume: Christin Marlen Freyler
Sound: Bernd Hackmann
Production Management: Rolf Seyfried
Producer: Simon Grohe
Producers: Schiwago Film (Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis)
Commissioning Editor: Silvia Lambri (ZDF)

Year of production: 2022
Fotos: © ZDF / Sandra Hoever

Fremder Feind

by schiwagofilmadmin | Feb 13, 2023

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Fremder Feind

“Stranger Enemy” is a drama about heavy losses, about love and ultimately about the futility of any war.

About the content: Arnold (Ulrich Matthes) and his wife Karen (Barbara Auer) are shocked when their common son Chris informs them that he has enlisted in the Bundeswehr and that the deployment is already imminent. Their son’s deployment abroad is the beginning of a grueling time for Arnold and Karen. And indeed, one day the couple receives the news, as dreaded as it is terrible, that their son has fallen. Karen breaks down over Chris’s death. Arnold wants to leave everything behind and retreats to a lonely mountain hut with his last remaining companion, his dog.

But no sooner does he arrive in the mountains than he is exposed to an unknown enemy: a man who devastates Arnold’s property and critically injures his dog. Arnold drives a war against this faceless stranger whose identity remains a mystery. In Anne (Jordis Triebel), Arnold meets someone who gives him a glimpse of something beyond his hermit life again. But then it comes to an all-important fight between Arnold and the unknown stranger. A fight to the death …

“Fremder Feind” is a production of Schiwago Film GmbH, sponsored by Cine Tirol Film Commission, commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne for Das Erste. Corinna Liedtke (WDR) is the editor.

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Credits

Cast: Ullrich Matthes, Barbara Auer, Jordis Triebel, Felix von Bredow, Lili Epply, Thomas Loibl, Samuel Schneider

Screenplay: Hannah Hollinger
based on the novel “Krieg” by: Jochen Rausch
Director: Rick Ostermann
Camera: Leah Striker
Composer: Stefan Will
Editing: Christoph Wermke
Production design: KD Gruber
Costume: Natascha Curtius-Noss
Make-up: Sylvia Grave, Peter Bour
Sound: Stefan Soltau
Mix: Matthias Schwaab
Production management: Frank Zahl
Line Producer: Charles E. Breitkreuz
Producer: Louise von Johnston
Producer: Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny
Commissioning Editor: Corinna Liedtke, WDR

Production year: 2017

Kasimir und Karoline

by schiwagofilmadmin | Feb 13, 2023

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Kasimir und Karoline

Despite the disastrous loss of his job, the mechanic Kasimir agrees to accompany his fiancée to the Munich Oktoberfest. The most Bavarian of all festivals will be celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2010. She wants to have a good time, but Kasimir doesn’t feel like celebrating, since the loss of his economic base is not only affecting his mind, but lately also his potency…

Credits

Cast: Golo Euler, Christina Hecke, Robert Gwisdek, Esther Kuhn, Max Tidof, Arnfried Lerche, Alina Stiegler, Florian Bartholomäi

Screenplay: Michael Klette
Director: Ben von Grafenstein
Camera: Ralf Noack
Composer: Rainer Oleak
Editing: Till Ufer, Ben von Grafenstein
Production design: Markus Dicklhuber
Costume: Barbara Schwarz
Make-up: Katharina Pointner
Sound: Thomas Conen
Production management: Lilian Dammann, Anita Schenk
Producer: Martin Lehwald
Commissioning Editor: ZDFtheaterkanal, Meike Klingenberg
Production year: 2011

Preise

Filmfest München – Förderpreis Deutscher Film For Golo Euler
Baden-Baden Television Film Festival – Special Jury Prize for Best Literary Adaptation
Kimera International Film Festival – Best Film, Best Director, Audience Award
Ödön von Horváth Award

Festivalteilnahmen

Munich Film Festival (New German Cinema)
Five Lakes Film Festival
Biberach Film Festival
Film Festival Turkey/Germany
Kimera International Film Festival

Fluss des Lebens: Wiedersehen an der Donau

by schiwagofilmadmin | Feb 13, 2023

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Fluss des Lebens: Wiedersehen an der Donau

Vienna – In front of the Tanneks’ villa, a somewhat wild Romanian of no more than 15 years of age stands and demands to see Dana Manulescu. Dr. Daniela Tannek is thunderstruck, slams the door in the “stranger’s” face, tries to hide her agitation from her still-husband Franz and daughter Paula. But the
young Romanian doesn’t let up until he’s in the car with “Aunt Dana” – on the way to her old home: the Romanian Danube Delta. Neither Franz nor Paula know about Daniela’s real origins.

In the Delta, Dana meets the real reason for this trip: Her brother Silviu Manulescu. The rifts of the past between Dana and Silviu have widened with each passing year since childhood, seeming almost insurmountable for brother and sister. Dana is about to turn her back on Silviu, the village and her old home once and for all. But then Franz and Paula appear in this enchanted water world, in the mist of which their Daniela has disappeared so uncharacteristically that they were seriously worried.

Franz, in his own way, helps Dana stay. It is the only chance to save their almost lost relationship. It is only in the encounter with the homeland that has become so foreign to her and with the unique nature of the people there that she finds the peace to arrive and to pave a way to herself with careful steps.

But then she realizes that she doesn’t have much time left, because Silvio is sick. Very sick. Emil’s only wish was for his father to finally find his way back to his sister, whom he misses – whether he admits it or not – more than he can even bear.

Credits

Cast: Sandra Borgmann, Harald Krassnitzer, Thomas Sarbacher, Bogdan Iancu, Nathalie Köbli

Screenplay: Martin Kluger, Maureen Herzfeld, Raphael Solà-Ferrer
Director: Torsten C. Fischer
Camera: Hagen Bogdanski
Composer: Ulrich Reuter
Editing: Heike Parplies
Production design: Jörg Prinz
Costume: Heike Werner
Mask: Kitty Kratschke
Sound: Dirk Homann
Production management: Darko Lovrinic
Producer: Simon Grohe
Producer: Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny, Marcos Kantis
Commissioning Editor: Nele Willaert (ZDF), Ulrike Marek (ORF)