ANOTHER REALITY

ANOTHER REALITY

 

ANOTHER REALITY is a character-driven documentary which provides a real insight into the life in parallel societies in Germany, ruled by Hip Hop music.

 

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Production: Elemag Pictures I Germany

It’s US Media & 27KM I Germany

Cognito Films I Switzerland

 

Written and directed: Noël Dernesch & Olli Waldhauer

DoP: Friede Clausz

Editor: Gesa Jäger

Distribution Germany: Der Filmverleih

World Sales: Magnetfilm

 

In Co-Production with RBB, WDR, SRF / SRG SSR in collaboration with ARTE

Funded through

Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung

BKM

medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

Zürcher Filmstiftung

Kulturfonds Suissimage

 

Audience Award DOK.Fest Munich 2019

La Semaine de la Critique Locarno International Filmfestival 2019

Special Award Editing Gesa Jäger Filmkunsttage Sachsen-Anhalt 2019

Youth Jury Award German Films Festival Nantes 2019

SLAVES

SLAVES

 

Documentary, 52 min

Germany / Russia

 

Director: YousifAl-Chalabi

Producer: Tanja Georgieva, Vlad Ketkovich, Borislav Chouchkov, Maria Chuprinskaya

Production: Elemag Pictures GmbH, Ethnofund Russia Co-Production: WDR, Guardian

 

All nations denounced slavery, but it still exists and flourishes in many countries. A slave costs about USD 300-400. Their life has a price and the price for a human being is even less than the latest smartphone.

ANNUAL RINGS

ANNUAL RINGS

 

short documentary, 30

Germany 2017

Director: Jens Becker

DoP: Peter Badel, Yoliswa von Dallwitz

Editor: Annett Ilijew

Music: Composing Anja Dolak

Sound: Antje Volkmann, Benjamin Frank

Producer: Tanja Georgieva

Production: Elemag Pictures GmbH

Partner: Kulturelle Filmförderung Mecklenburg e.V., Filmwerkstatt Kiel/FFHSH, Thüringer Staatskanzlei, DEFA-Stiftung

 

Some people's lives are as eventful as a good novel. 88-year-old Siegfried Wanka has lived such a life. He was a gambler, a notorious womaniser, always crossing lines. Wanka has always lived in the shadow of power, as an interpreter for Walter Ulbricht, agent leader of the Stasi in Vienna, party official, arms dealer, and profiteer. He never really cared about morality - it was always about survival In his life's novel, this short film recounts the preface. The story before it became history, of a 16-year-old who was almost shot dead on Sylt at the end of the war. Who sank with a minesweeper off the coast of Schleswig- Holstein and survived. Who was given a second chance at life and wanted to make good use of it. A refugee stranded in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, full of ambition to make something of himself.

THE SIXTH CONTINENT

THE SIXTH CONTINENT

 

documentary, 84 / 52

Germany, Italy

 

written and directed by Andreas Pichler

DoP: Susanne Schüle, Martin Rattini Editor: NelaMärki

Sound: Stefano Bernardi

Music Composer: Jan Tilman Schade

Producer: Tanja Georgieva, Valerio Moser, Borislav Chouchkov, Andreas Pichler Production: Elemag Pictures

Co-Producer: Miramonte Film, ORF, RAI Bozen

funded by Eurimages, MDM, IDM Südtirol, BKM, Amt für Film und Medien Südtirol Distributer Germany: REAL FICTION

Theatrical release South Tyrol January 2018 / Germany May 2018

 

The odd house on the outskirts of a small town has become a haven for survivors and castaways of all coloratura. A safe place and open experiment.

The „House of Solidarity“ is going to rack and ruin, but it is the beauty of the city of Brixen in South Tyrol at the edge of the forest. On taking a closer look, you discover something completely unexpected. Site not shrouded in mystery, but a highly colourful and lively biotope of extremely different destinies. Forty, fifty people live in this house. Thieves, the homeless and the jobless, addicts and refugees from half the world. Their biographies read like a collection of diverse life stories that have only one thing in common: they are all stranded, often failed in life. Here they find a temporary safe place home and live together.

 

This cannot work out well, said the residents wrongly over 10 years ago when the house of solidarity came alive. But the impressive social experiment was successful.

 

In the narrative time frame of few months, the documentary THE SIXTH CONTINENT is capturing the utopic moment in a very intimate and poetic manner, which is the peculiar thing about this place.

 

Soon, everything becomes very different in the house of solidarity. The missionary order that provided it, wants it back. The future is open.

SUMMER `45

SUMMER `45

 

Cease-fire - My summer in Dresden ’45 I Germany I non-fiction I 33 min

 

Written and directed by Hans-Dieter Grabe

DoP: Aldo Gugolz

Editor: Annett Illijew

Commissioning Editor: Udo Bremer, ZDF/3sat

 

The documentary director Hans-Dieter Grabe  reflects on a year that was not only special but also dramatic for him.

 

"On April 17, my father, a colonel in the Luftwaffe, suddenly returned to us from one of the theatres of war. Shortly thereafter, howling sirens drove us and the other residents into the air-raid shelter. Then the longest air-raids to date began in Dresden. An aerial bomb missed our house by just a few metres, but a firebomb hit it. My father in his undone uniform jacket tried, in vain, to flag down a fire brigade in front of our burning house. We, however, were unhurt, my father was with us, and just three houses down we found shelter.

 

My parents didn't know what to think about the impending cease-fire. That, I couldn't understand. The weapons would be stopped, and I would no longer have to be afraid of bombs. Not a single shot was fired when soon thereafter the Red Army marched into Dresden. I saw how afraid the grown-ups were of the Russians. But I could also see the Russians' weariness. I liked their singing. The gardens around the ruins became playgrounds for us children. Stolen fruit filled our empty stomachs.

 

The Russians took my father. My mother and I hoped to find him behind bars in the Dresden prison. Then after many weeks a miracle occurred. My father was released for health reasons from the former Buchenwald concentration camp, which was now being used as a special camp for Soviet secret police. I learnt about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A single plane with a single bomb destroyed an entire city. What would have happened to us if there hadn't been a cease-fire?

 

A new school year began. The young teacher did not hit our fingers with a long ruler anymore. I loved her. And then when my summer of '45 was coming to an end I loved yet another young woman: a tightrope walker. She balanced from the Hofkirche steeple above the Elbe. Under her feet my parents and I stood in a tightly packed sea of people. All of us stared up holding our breath.  We were spellbound not because we were afraid of bombers but because the truce had held after all."

VOLCANO

VOLCANO

 

fiction feature, 90 min

Ukraine/ Germany

 

Lukas, an interpreter for a military mission, gets lost near a remote Ukrainian village and stumbles from simple misadventure into the weirdest road trip of his life.

 

Director: Roman Bondarchuk

script: Alla Tyutyunnuk, Darya Averchenko, Roman Bondarchuk DoP: Vadim Ilkov

Sound Design: Borys Peter

Music Composer: Anton Baibakov

Production Design: Kirill Shuvalov

Editor: Mykola Bazarkin, Heike Parplies

Colour Correction and VFX: ARRI Media Halle

Producer: Olena Yershova

Co-Producer: Tanja Georgieva, Michel Merkt, Darya Averchenko Production: Tatofilm

Co-Production: Elemag Pictures, KNM, SOUTH

Partner: Ukrainian State Film Agency and Mitteldeutscher Medienförderung.

TAILOR / DER HOCHZEITSSCHNEIDER VON ATHEN

TAILOR / DER HOCHZEITSSCHNEIDER VON ATHEN

 

fiction feature, 90 min

Greece, Germany, Belgium

 

 

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Nikos, an excellent tailor, sees his life collapsing. His daughter has turned his back on him, his father is sick and needs money for his care and their sewing workshop is on the brink of bankruptcy. He then has the idea of going to his customers since his customers no longer come to him. He launches an itinerant workshop which quickly becomes the attraction of the popular districts of Athens. It turns out to be THE wedding dress specialist. Life finally seems to smile again when he learns that the family workshop will be seized. Moreover, his traveling workshop is destroyed by the jealous husband of his neighbor who helps her to make the ordered clothes. And it is by making the wedding dress of his daughter, who will find a meaning to his life.

 

Director: Sonia Liza Kentermann

Producer: Fenia Cossovitsa

Co-Producer: Tanja Georgieva, Melanie Andernach, Isabelle Truc

Production: BLONDE audiovisual productions, Elemag Pictures, Made in Germany Filmproduktion, Iota Production

Partner: Eurimages, ERT, Griechisches Filmcenter, Creative Europe, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles

World Sales: Plutofilm

Distributer Germany: Neue Visionen Filmverleih