SYNOPSIS Zagazig, a small city on the Nile Delta in Egypt. Today. Souad, 19-year-old young woman, leads a double life. While remaining conservative and veiled among her family and society, Souad is obsessed with her image on social media, and goes in several secret virtual relationships with men. She constantly lies about her personal life, projecting wishfully images of a different desired life. Her ambitions are slowly crushed by the invasion of her true reality. A series of small incidents lead to a tragic event, that makes Rabab, her 13-year-old little sister, embarks on a real-life journey looking for answers.
BIOGRAPHY Ayten Amin was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1978, she studied film criticism at the Egyptian Cinema Writers and Critics Association and then film at the Art Lab of the American University in Cairo. Her graduation film, HER MAN, based on a short story by Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif, screened at Clermont-Ferrand in France and many other festivals. She also co-directed the documentary TAHRIR 2011, which premiered at Venice. Her feature debut, VILLA 69, screened at film festivals in Abu Dhabi, Malmö and Cannes.
FILMOGRAPHY Her Man (2006), Spring 89 (2009), Tahrir 2011: The Good, the Bad and the Politician (2011), Villa 69 (2013), Souad (2021)
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Vivid Reels WORLD SALES: Best Friend Forever Sales (sales@bffsales.eu)
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Film programme
This year, for the first time, you can also stream films from the NIHRFF programme from home via the kino3 platform of Filmhaus Nürnberg. Almost all films from the programme can be watched online for 48 hours after the purchase.
Films are available from September 29, 9 p.m. until October 6, 11:59 p.m.
All film talks this year will be streamed live from our festival lounge via our YouTube channel. You can join the conversation via chat. Afterwards, all talks will be available online on our YouTube channel for free, so for the first time you can catch up on all film talks at any time, should you have missed something.
The concerts and panel discussion in our accompanying programme will also be broadcasted on YouTube.
with Anne Jung (medico international) and Lydia Cairncross (C19 People’s Coalition, Südafrika)
On 11 March 2020, the global spread of COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. 18 months later, the virus is still not under control. Medically, it is clear: the COVID-19 pandemic is not over until it is over for everyone – worldwide. But instead of making vaccines and medical supplies available to as many people as possible, as quickly and as cheaply as possible, all over the world, European governments are leaving it up to the pharmaceutical industry to decide who produces how many vaccine doses. NIHRFF director Andrea Kuhn talks to Anne Jung, global health officer at the aid and human rights organisation medico international, and South African doctor Lydia Cairncross from the C19 People’s Coalition about the political handling of the pandemic and practices of solidarity in action.
DE 2020, 20 min, Language: German, Subtitles: English, Directed by: Maroan el Sani, Nina Fischer
Appropriation Takes You on a Weird Ride investigates the strange German enthusiasm for Native Americans in relation to contemporary racism and its deep colonial roots. This fascination, especially with regard to the construction of a german identity, has a rather frightening than impressive chronology: it begins with the first-century Germanic Cherusci chieftan Arminius and stretches to the adventure novels of Karl May and the Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Shows in the 1800s, through the ethnographic exhibitions (Völkerschauen) in zoos and circuses and founding of “Indian clubs” at the turn of the twentieth century, onward to the appropriation of Indigenous identities by Nazi ideologists, up until the present day, when new rightwing groups have developed an unsettling identification with the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.
Leipzig, 1996. The receptionist shows the White Suite at the Hotel Astoria. She says she still has hope that a guardian angel will save the Astoria. But seven years after the fall of the Wall, the curtain also falls on the legendary hotel. Political change of the late 1980s was also felt at the Astoria. Memories of this exclusive place are brought to life through a mixture of archive material and animation. We learn about the hard work in hospitality and the absurdities of everyday life in the GDR, about turtle soup in a country that was known for an economy of scarcity, and about the hotel bar where prostitutes, tourists, and Stasi agents had their drinks. These contradictions are also reflected in the statements of the staff and guests. Some recall a culture of fear, while others describe it as the best time of their lives. The film shows that different historical experiences can coexist – that‘s where you find the grey areas between propaganda and reality. Because truth is a matter of opinion.
DE 2021, 22 min, n, Language: German, Subtitles: English, Directed by: Moritz Siebert
Gerson Liebl, grandson of a German colonial official from Togo, has been fighting to obtain German citizenship for the last 30 years. As a last resort, he decides to go on hunger strike. The images of his unswerving perseverance in front of Berlin’s Red Town Hall are accompanied by statements, testimonies, legal texts, political positions and excuses – then and now.
Radio Z Talks live from the Festival Lounge with international filmmakers. Programme notes at www.radio-z.net and from 2.00 p.m. on 95.8 Mhz
In parntership with
Live in Concert: Das Synthikat
01.10., 22:00 Festival Lounge and YouTube – free admission
das_synthikat are two cyberpunks who try to make the best out of this dystopia – rebellious DIY music.
In partnership with
Live in Concert: LiÆN
02.10., 22:00 Festival Lounge and YouTube – free admission
LiÆN plays songs mixed of voice and crooked instrumental tracks, accompanied by distorted memories and feelings, be it of noisy cars, screeching flamingos or the daily tram ride. Her debut album “Featuring Pascal’s Skateboard” was released in spring 2021 on the Nuremberg label Verydeep records.
In parntership with
Live in Concert: Shabnam Zamani
05.10.,21:00 Festival Lounge and YouTube – free admission
Shabnam Zamani was born in Tehran, Iran. She studied classical Persian singing with the masters Shirin Hashemi and Mohsen Keramati. She has lived in Germany since 2004. Since then she has expanded her radius and performed with international artists. Her own band is called “Adore Collektive”. In addition to concert performances, she also teaches classical Persian singing (“Radif”).
Global vaccine equity – How patents hinder access to vaccines for all
Please note that the Open Eyes school films are offered especially for school classes and are not open to the public. More information about the programme and registration for teachers can be found at www.nihrff.de/en/open-eyes.
Since 2007, Open Eyes has been generously sponsored by Stabilo International GmbH.
All films in this section are shown at Cinecittà, Kino 9. The films are available in their original version with German subtitles. Tickets for the screenings are available exclusively at the Cinecittà box office or online.
DIRECTED BY: Christoph Eder COUNTRY: Germany YEAR: 2021 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): German SUBTITLES:RUNNING TIME: 96 min
SECTION: Open Eyes 2021
SYNOPSIS Christoph Eder draws a personal portrait of the inhabitants of his home village on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen and describes the conflict between the interests of individuals and the common good in times of modern tourism.
BIOGRAPHY Christoph Eder works as a director and author. In his films, he mainly deals with socio-political issues of our time. In addition to his work on documentaries, he is active in online and television productions. Among other things, he directs the satire format “Browser Ballet” (ARD/ZDF), which was awarded the Grimme Prize 2019. Eder’s short films have screened at national and international festivals and have won several awards. He studied media art at the Bauhaus University Weimar and directing at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. Together with four filmmakers, he founded the KAMMER11 film collective in 2013.
FILMOGRAPHY Mr. Wood (2015), Imbiss (2016), Streaming through Life (2017), Die Isolation der Oma Lilo (2020), Wem gehört mein Dorf? (2021)
SCRIPT: Christoph Eder PRODUCER: Marcel Lenz, Guido Schwab, Claritta Kratochwil CINEMATOGRAPHY: Domenik Schuster EDITOR: Patrick Richter SCORE: Anna Kühlein
SYNOPSIS Gerson Liebl, grandson of a German colonial official from Togo, has been fighting to obtain German citizenship for the last 30 years. As a last resort, he decides to go on hunger strike. The images of his unswerving perseverance in front of Berlin’s Red Town Hall are accompanied by statements, testimonies, legal texts, political positions and excuses – then and now.
BIOGRAPHY Moritz Siebert, geboren 1973 in Stuttgart, schloss zunächst ein Studium der Medizin und Kulturanthropologie in Berlin ab, bevor er an der National Film and Television School (NFTS) in Großbritannien ein weiteres Studium absolvierte. Sein Film LES SAUTEURS wurde 2016 im Berlinale Forum gezeigt. Moritz Siebert lebt und arbeitet als Filmemacher und Arzt in Berlin.
FILMOGRAPHY Rapstars (2002), Belgrad Backspin (2005), Anne and Gail (2008), My Name Is Karl (2008), Long Distance (2009), Erntehelfer (2014), Les sauteurs (2016), My New European Life (2019), Zahlvaterschaft (2021)
SCRIPT: Hanna Keller, Moritz Siebert PRODUCER: Moritz Siebert, Hanna Keller CINEMATOGRAPHY: Moritz Siebert EDITOR: Moritz Siebert
PRODUCTION COMPANY: siebertfilms (info@siebertfilms.com) GERMAN DISTRIBUTORArsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V. (distribution@arsenal-berlin.de)
Year of the Discovery, The
Año del descubrimiento, El
DIRECTED BY: Luis López Carrasco COUNTRY: Spain, Switzerland YEAR: 2020 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): Spanish SUBTITLES: English, German RUNNING TIME: 200 min
SYNOPSIS Neighbors, youngsters and unemployed workers chat inside a bar between cigarettes, breakasts and snacks. They remember unusual dreams, share job stories and plan future projects. The bar is located in the city of Cartagena, in the southeast of Spain. As the day goes on, the riots from the industrial crisis of 1992 are heard more and more closely. In 1992 in Spain the Barcelona Olympic Games and the Seville Expo were held, linked to the celebration of the 5th Centenary of the Discovery of America. The country is presented to the international community as a modern, developed and dynamic country. Meanwhile in Cartagena, the protests because of the crisis became increasingly violent and would result in a mass uprising that culminate in the burning of the parliament of the Autonomous Community.
BIOGRAPHY Luis López Carrasco was born in Spain in 1981. In 2008 he co-founded Los Hijos, an experimental cinema and documentary collective, with Javier Fernández Vázquez and Natalia Marín Sancho. They directed several shorts such as EL SOL EN EL SOL DEL MEMBRILLO (2008). Their first feature film, LOS MATERIALES, was awarded the Jean Vigo Prize for Best Direction at the Punto de Vista International Film Festival in 2010.
FILMOGRAPHY Para ser cajera del súper siempre hay tiempo (2007), El sol en el sol del membrillo (2008), Los materiales (2010), El futuro (2013), Arboles (2013), Aliens (2017), The Year of the Discovery (2020)
SCRIPT: Raúl Liarte, Luis López Carrasco PRODUCER: Luis Ferrón, Luis López Carrasco, Pedro Palacios, Daniel M. Caneiro, Ricard Sales, Marta Lacima, Javier Fernández CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sara Gallego Grau EDITOR: Sergio Jiménez Barranquero SCORE:CAST:
SYNOPSIS Without solidarity, hope would long since have died. The borders in the Italian-French Roya valley have been closed since 2015. Countless refugees try in vain to leave the Italian town of Ventimiglia for France and are sent back again and again. But the liberal inhabitants of this stubborn region refuse to settle for this. Together they oppose the law, shelter young migrants, provide them with bread behind the backs of the police – plainly doing everything to give these people a future. So in the foggy gorges far from the great European metropolises there is a community that stands together and just wants to help, resists – out of love of their homeland, out of human kindness, out of the shared belief in a world where we can live together peacefully and which is worth fighting for. WORDS OF BANDITS shows an oasis of hope. A film about arriving, progressing and approaching each other. (Julia Weigl, DOK Leipzig)
BIOGRAPHY Jean Boiron-Lajous studied film at the University of Lille 3 and at the University of Aix-Marseille. In 2012 he directed LA MÉMOIRE ET LA MER, a documentary film produced by the University of Aix-Marseille with the participation of INA (FID Marseille 2013 selection). In 2015 he directed TERRA DI NESSUNO, a documentary produced by Prima Luce that won awards at FID Marseille and many international festivals. He continued his collaboration with Prima Luce and in 2018 directed PLUS T’APPUIES MOINS J’AI MAL, a short film and WORDS OF BANDITS (PAROLES DE BANDITS), another documentary.
FILMOGRAPHY La mémoire et la mer (2012), Terra di nessuno (2015), The harder you hit the less it hurts (2018), Words of Bandits (2019)
SCRIPT: Jean Boiron Lajous PRODUCER: Loïc Legrand CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jean Boiron Lajous EDITOR: Myriam Aycaguer, Jean Boiron Lajous
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Prima Luce (info@primaluce.fr)WORLD SALES:Prima Luce (info@primaluce.fr)
Wolves, The
Lobos, Los
DIRECTED BY: Samuel Kishi Leopo COUNTRY: Mexico YEAR: 2019 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): Spanish, English, Cantonese SUBTITLES: German live voice over RUNNING TIME: 95 min
SYNOPSIS Eight year old Max and his younger brother Leo don’t have much, but they have each other and their mother Lucía. And they share a dream as well: To visit Disneyland one day. The family has recently emigrated to the USA from Mexico, and while Lucía tries to finance their new life by doing odd jobs, the two brothers spend their days in their sparsely furnished one-room flat. The walls of the room, which they are forbidden to leave, become a projection screen for imaginative adventures and open a window on their new life. Director Samuel Kishi Leopo recalls aspects of his own childhood in Los Lobos and resituates them in a currently highly charged context – brutally honest and yet poetic, melancholic and full of hope. (Souce: Berlinale)
BIOGRAPHY Samuel Kishi Leopo holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in audiovisual arts from the University of Guadalajara. His work has been shown in over 100 festivals around the world, including Clermont Ferrand and the Berlinale, where he competed on the Generation Kplus section with his feature film debut SOMOS MARI PEPA. Some of his awards include the Morelia International Film Festival’s Silver Eye, the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences’ Best Short Film for MARI PEPA, as well as three Ariel nominations for his feature film debut SOMOS MARI PEPA.
FILMOGRAPHY Luces negras (2009), Acerca del drama de los calcetines (2010), Mari Pepa (2011), Somos Mari Pepa (2013), Juglares del Gol (2016), Los Lobos (2019)
SCRIPT: Samuel Kishi Leopo, Sofía Gómez Córdova, Luis Briones PRODUCER: Inna Payan Stoupignan CINEMATOGRAPHY: Octavio Arauz EDITOR: Yordi Capó, Carlos Espinoza Benítez, Samuel Kishi Leopo SCORE: Kenji Kishi Leopo CAST: Maximiliano Nájar Márquez, Leonardo Nájar Márquez, Martha Reyes Arias
The RER B is an urban train that traverses Paris and its environs from north to south. Multiaward-winning documentary filmmaker Alice Diop takes us through these suburban spaces and confronts us with some of the faces and stories of which they are composed. A moving testament to the importance of filming as a process of bearing witness and remembering, Nous is timely in many ways. It is subtle and shrewd in a world which favours shortcuts and easy answers. Justifiably adopting the fragmented structure of a patchwork portrait in order to describe a riven society, Diop displays impressive control of her essay and its impact. In the film’s first few minutes, a deer is observed, through binoculars. A certain sense of awkward, man-made distance stays with us. Isolation, discrimination and nostalgia for hierarchies, inherited from a monarchical past… Divisions haunt France’s present. But the human urge to give as well as to receive stubbornly creeps into every situation, observed or triggered. Could this be the one thing that still keeps a nation together?
BIOGRAPHY Alice Diop was born in Aulnay-sous-Bois, France. Her films, which question French society and its cultural diversity, have screened at festivals including Cinéma du Réel in Paris, BFI London, Karlovy Vary, the Viennale and the documentary film festival in Lussas, France. Her feature-length documentary ON CALL won the main prize at Cinéma du Réel while her short film TOWARDS TENDERNESS won the 2017 César French film prize for Best Short Film
FILMOGRAPHY Les Senegalaises et la Senegauloise (2007), Danton’s Death (2011),Towards Tenderness (2016), On Call (2016), We (2021)
SCRIPT: Alice Diop PRODUCER: Sophie Salbot CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sarah Blum, Sylvain Verdet, Clément Alline EDITOR: Amrita David
PRODUCTION COMPANY: AthénaÏse WORLD SALES: Totem Films (hello@totem-films.com)
Guardian, The
Wächterin, Die
DIRECTED BY: Martina Priessner COUNTRY: Germany YEAR: 2020 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): Kurdish, Turkish, Turoyo SUBTITLES: English, German RUNNING TIME: 87 min
SYNOPSIS For 18 years, the Syrian Orthodox nun Dayrayto lives on the grounds of a church in Zaz, a dilapidated and abandoned Assyrian village in southeastern Turkey. Together with the monk Abuna she cared for the church for fourteen years. Ever since the monk died four years ago Dayrayto lives alone with her two dogs, a cow, chicken, and three cats. She is vulnerable to multiple threats. Her presence in the region is a thorn in the side of many local actors. There has always been hostili- ties from the Muslim side and little support from her own community. Lately, the situation is getting worse and Dayrayto fears for her dog’s life, which she believes has been deliberately poisoned. The camera follows Dayrayto through her everyday life and observes her struggle for survival, her worries and hardships as fear and loneliness are her constant companions. An yet, Dayrayto is a courageous and fearless woman – she promised Abuna to never leave this holy place and to protect the church, no matter what.
BIOGRAPHY Martina Priessner is a documentary filmmaker and author based in Berlin. She obtained her degree in Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin. For the past several years, her interests have focused on German-Turkish migration. Priessner completed her first full-length documentary in 2010 entitled BASED DOWN SOUTH, which was nominated for the Grimme Award. While she was living in Istanbul from 2012 to 2017 she documented the summer 2013 known as the Gezi Protests through the found footage film EVERYDAY I’M CAPULING. In 2016 Priessner finished the documentary 650 WORDS which deals with migration and language. Priessner has been the recipient of scholarships from Nipkow, Defa, Kulturakademie Tarabya and Mercator-IPC. Her latest work DIE WÄCHTERIN is a documentary about an Assyrian nun in Southeast Turkey.
FILMOGRAPHY Die Rausur (2005), Die sechs Tage Adam und Eva (2008), 650 Wörter (2010), Everyday I’m çapuling (2013), Wir sitzen im Süden (2010), Die Wächterin (2020)
SCRIPT: Martina Priessner PRODUCER: Friedemann Hottenbacher, Gregor Streiber CINEMATOGRAPHY: Meryem Yavuz EDITOR: Özlem Sarıyıldız
SYNOPSIS A small town in Serbia. Nikola, day laborer and father of two, is ordered to give up his children to social services after poverty and hunger drive his wife to commit a desperate act. Until he can provide adequate conditions for their upbringing, the children will be placed in foster care. Despite Nikola’s best efforts and several appeals, the head of the social services centre refuses to return his children and his situation seems hopeless. But when Nikola discovers the local administration may be corrupt, he decides to travel across Serbia on foot and take his case directly to the national ministry in Belgrade. Against all odds and driven by love and despair, this father refuses to give up on justice and his right to raise his children.
BIOGRAPHIE Srdan Golubović wurde 1972 in Belgrad, Serbien (ehemaliges Jugoslawien), geboren und studierte Theaterwissenschaften, während er mehrere Kurzfilme drehte. Zusammen mit anderen jungen Filmemachern gründete er die Produktionsfirma Baš Čelik. Im Jahr 2001 drehte er sein Spielfilmdebüt APSOLUTNIH STO, das auf mehreren internationalen Festivals mit Preisen ausgezeichnet wurde. Seine Filme KLOPKA und KRUGOVI wurden beide auf der Berlinale gezeigt. Er ist Dozent für Film- und Fernsehregie an der Universität der Künste in Belgrad.
FILMOGRAPHY Absolute Hundred (2001), The Trap (2007), Circles (2013), Father (2020)
SCRIPT: Srdan Golubović, Ognjen Sviličić PRODUCER: Jelena Mitrovič, Čedomir Kolar, Alexander Ris, Marc Baschet, Danis Tanović, Boris T. Matić, Lana Matić, Danijel Hočevar, Amra bakšić Čamo, Adis Djapo CINEMATOGRAPHY: Aleksandar Ilič EDITOR: Petar Marković SCORE:CAST: Goran Bogdan, Boris Isakovic, Nada Sargin
PRODUCTION COMPANY: ASAP Films (ckolar@noos.fr), Film House Bas Celik, Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion, Propeler Film, SCCA/pro.ba (office@pro.ba), Vertigo Films ( prensa@vertigofilms.es) WORLD SALES: The Match Factory (info@matchfactory.de)
In 2002, after a night spent avoiding the dangers of Colombia’s ongoing unrest, José arrives home to dreadful news: “They took them away”, he is informed by his sobbing daughter; with this, he knows without doubt that his two sons are dead, their corpses disposed of in the river that provides the family’s livelihood. So begins a terrible journey, as José goes in search of the bodies of his murdered boys. Along the way, he encounters occasional kindnesses, the constant threat of violence, and – perhaps – the intercession of saints. With its precise portrayal of intense fear and grief ensconced in an odyssey that somehow remains disturbingly placid, Valley of Souls is a plea for peace in a society still rent by civil strife.
BIOGRAPHY After receiving a bachelor’s degree in Economy in Bogotá, Nicolás Rincón Gille studied in Belgium at the insas. He worked as a cinematographer on a few films and directed three short films before embarking on his trilogy project “campo hablado” dedicated to the richness of oral tradition in Colombia’s countryside. The first part, THOSE WAITING IN THE DARK (2007), received the Joris Ivens Award at Cinéma du Réel, followed by the second part, THE EMBRACE OF THE RIVER (2010), which was awarded the Montgolfière d’Or Prize at the Festival des 3 Continents. WOUNDED NIGHT (2015) is the last part of the trilogy, awarded Special Mention from the International Jury at Cinéma de Réel and Best Film in the Colombian Competition at ficci in 2016. VALLEY OF SOULS is his first fiction feature.
FILMOGRAPHY Those Waiting in the Dark (2007), The Embrace of the River (2010), Wounded Night (2015), Valley of Souls (2019)
SCRIPT: Nicólas Rincón Gille PRODUCER: Hector Ulloque Franco, Manuel Ruiz Montealegre CINEMATOGRAPHY: Juan Sarmiento G. EDITOR: Cedric Zoenen CAST: Arley de Jesús Carvallido Lobo
KPRODUCTION COMPANY: Medio de Contención ProduccionesWORLD SALES:Best Friend Forever Sales (sales@bffsales.eu)
INHALT Transgender/Trans*-Menschen bezeichnet Menschen, deren Geschlechtsmerkmale nicht mit ihrem gefühlten Geschlecht, dem sogenannten Identitätsgeschlecht, übereinstimmen. TRANS – I GOT LIFE stellt sieben verschiedene Menschen vor, bei denen genau dies zutrifft. Sie erzählen offen von ihren persönlichen Erfahrungen mit ihrer Umwelt und den eigenen Identitätskonflikten. Neben den persönlichen Geschichten beleuchtet der Film auch die Möglichkeiten der modernen Medizin durch chirurgische Geschlechtsangleichung. TRANS – I GOT LIFE zeigt eindrücklich wie unterschiedlich die Wege zur Selbstverwirklichung aussehen können und macht deutlich, dass Geschlechter nicht mehr nur binär gedacht werden können.
BIOGRAPHIE Doris Metz lebt und arbeitet in München. Sie ist in Oberstdorf/Allgäu aufgewachsen. Nach einem Studium in Neuerer deutscher Literaturwissenschaft, Linguistik und Politikwissenschaft an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München und einem SZ-Volontariat in Bonn und München war sie zehn Jahre lang Redakteurin und Autorin der Süddeutschen Zeitung im Bereich Medien und Innenpolitik und war nach der Wende als Reporterin in den neuen Bundesländern im Einsatz. Seit 1998 macht Doris Metz Kino-Dokumentarfilme und Fernsehfilme. Ihr Fokus liegt auf gesellschaftspolitischen Stoffen. Ihre Filme „Lesbos“ und „Kleine Eroberer“ wurden für den Grimme-Preis nominiert. Mit „Schattenväter“, einem Film über Matthias Brandt und Pierre Boom, die Söhne von Willy Brandt und DDR-Spion Günter Guillaume, drehte sie 2005 einen vielbeachteten Kinodokumentarfilm. 2017 gründete sie zusammen mit Imogen Kimmel die Kimmel & Metz Filmproduktion. „TRANS – I got Life“ ist für Doris Metz der dritte gemeinsame Kinofilm mit der Bildgestalterin Sophie Maintigneux. Seit 2016 ist Doris Metz im Rundfunkrat des WDR (stellvertretendes Mitglied) und von 2016 – 2020 war sie im Bundesvorstand der AG DOK.
Imogen Kimmel studierte zunächst Literatur an der FU Berlin, dann an HFF München Dokumentarfilm. Anschließend Postgraduate Studies an der NSFTV, Leeds, England. Dort dreht sie die internationale Co-Produktion SECRET SOCIETY – CLUB DER STARKEN FRAUEN (Kinospielfilm, Buch und Regie), eine britische Sozialkomödie mit Sumoringerinnen aus feministischer Perspektive. 2011 lebt sie als Artist in Residence in Phnom Penh, Kambodscha und realisiert u.a. ein Social Art Project im Rahmen des UN Rote Khmer Tribunal. Ihre Spielfilme laufen auf Filmfestivals weltweit. SECRET SOCIETY gewinnt den Publikumspreis in Créteil Films de Femmes, der Social Spot MOVE YOUR ASS gewinnt auf dem New York Filmfestival. ALL OUT AT SEA (Kurzfilm) läuft im Wettbewerb der Berlinale, in Tokio, Chicago u.a. Seit 2007 hat sie zahlreiche TV-Spielfilme und TV-Serien inszeniert. Als eine der Initiatorinnen von Pro Quote Regie setzt sie sich für die Gleichstellung von Regisseurinnen ein, lehrt als Professorin für Regie an der Macromedia in München und gründet 2017 mit Doris Metz die kimmel&metz Filmproduktion.
FILMOGRAPHIE Doris Metz: Ich werde reich und glücklich (2002), Schattenväter (2005), Trans – I got Life (2021) Imogen Kimmel: All out at sea (1995), Secret Society – Club der starken Frauen (2001), Trans – I got Life (2021)
DREHBUCH: Doris Metz, Imogen Kimmel PRODUZENT:IN: André Schäfer, Doris Metz, Imogen Kimmel KAMERA: Sophie Maintigneux SCHNITT: Frank Müller MUSIK: Gregor Schwellenbach MIT:
KONTAKTE PRODUKTION: Florianfilm, Kimmel & Metz Filmproduktion WELTVERTRIEB: New Docs (sales@newdocs.de) DEUTSCHER VERLEIH: mindjazz (office@mindjazz-pictures.de )
