THe candiadates for audiences competition of Braunschweig's International Filmfestival (October 17th - 22nd, 2017) have been selected. Ten productions from ten countries compete for the "The Heinrich", the audience award for European debut and second feature films with a prize money of 10.000 Euros. Eight of the ten film are German premieres.
„Fortunately, it has turned out, that we selected five films of female directors and five by male directors without having a quota in mind", says festival director Michael P. Aust. „Apparently, gender equality in the director's seat is more common in Europe than in Germany“.
he prize money is equally divided between director and a German distributor who decides to take the film to the screens. The prize is sponsored by the festival's main sponsor Volkswagen Financial Services. The winning film will be announced at the award ceremony on Saturday, October 21st in Braunschweig' State Theatre.
Films in competition:
Bad Day for the Cut German premiere
director: Chris Baug, 2017, UK, 99 min.
Sales: Six Mile Hill Productions Ltd.
Intense Thriller impregnated with pitch black british humour about a personal vendetta of farmer in Northern Ireland.
Charleston German premiere
director: Andrei Cretulescu, 2017, RO/FR, 119 min.
Sales: Versatile Films
Alexandrus' wife has died in a car accident. A little later he receives an unexpected visitor: The affaire of his deceased wife asks him fr his assistance in mourning.
A Date for Mad Mary
director: Darren Thornton, 2016, IE, 82 min.
Sales: Salzgeber & Co Medien GmbH
Mary's life is nor what it sed to be… Drop dead funny-ironic cinema on the chaos of emotions, friendship, lve and letting go.
Dede German premiere
director: Mariam Khatchvani, 2017, GE/QA/IE/NL/HR, 97 min.
Sales: WIDE Management
Dina breaks with strict traditions in that she listens to her heart. The consequences exceed her powers of imagination.
Garden Lane (Trädgårdsgatan) German premiere
director: Olof Spaak, 2017, SE, 109 min.
Sales: Yellow Affair
Eric's and Elin's reminiscences take us into the parents' drug addiction and their idyllic childhood summer.
Les Cowboys German premiere
director: Thomas Bidegain, 2015, FR, 104 min.
Sales: The Festival Agency
For 15 years Alain searched for his daughter in Europe and Pakistan. A moving a current adventure film.
Monk German premiere
director: Ties Schenk, 2017, NL/BE, 74 min.
Sales: Picture Tree International GmbH
Tragic-comedy about a wonderfully weird family between neuroses, depression and hysteria. In the middle: little Monk.
Past Imperfect (Le Passé devant Nous) German premiere
director: Nathalie Teirlinck, 2017, BE/NL/DK/FR, 110 min.
Sales: Savage Film
Pretty Alice is harbouring several secrets - among them her 6 year-old son. Sensitively directed family drama.
Sommerhäuser
director: Sonja Kröner, 2017, DE, 96 min.
Sales: Walker + Worm Film GmbH & Co. KG
In her debut film, Sonja Kröner draws with atmospheric density the portrait of a family and transports us into summer 1976.
The Trampoline German premiere
director: Katarina Zrinka Matijević, 2016, HR, 82 min.
Sales: everything works LLC
About daughter, mother and the very delicate bond which connects them, even when it seems stretched to breaking point.
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