Louisa

film type documentary film Production Country Germany production year 2011 runtime 62'00 colour
screening format DigiBeta aspect ratio 1.33:1 (4:3) sound format Stereo languages Deutsch Subtitles Englisch, Deutsch

Louisa is 23 when she has to face the fact that she cannot hear anymore. All her life she has tried hard to be like everyone else: Communication was a constant fight of lip reading, always fearing to fail. Louisa starts to study sign language and against all apparent odds she decides not to get a hearing implant and finally decides to move out from her parents' flat. This film is an acoustic and sensual journey inbetween hearing and seeing.

director Katharina Pethke Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Gerriet K. Sharma Schnitt / Editing Daniela Kinateder Bildgestaltung / DOP Katharina Pethke Drehbuch / Script Katharina Pethke Produktion / Production Ute Dilger Tongestaltung / Sound Design Timo Selengia film school Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
Festivals
Crossing Europe Filmfestival, Linz, Austria
STRANGER THAN FICTION Dokumentarfilmfest, Köln, Germany
FILMZ - Festival des deutschen Kinos, Mainz, Germany
DOK Leipzig - Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm, Germany (Goldene Taube Deutscher Wettbewerb)
Production
  • Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
  • Ute Dilger
  • Peter-Welter-Platz 2
  • 50676 Köln
  • +49 221 20189330
  • http://www.khm.de
Distribution
  • Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
  • Ute Dilger
  • Peter-Welter-Platz 2
  • 50676 Köln
  • +49 221 20189330
  • http://www.khm.de
Sales
  • Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
  • Ute Dilger
  • Peter-Welter-Platz 2
  • 50676 Köln
  • +49 221 20189330
  • http://www.khm.de
School
  • Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
  • Peter-Welter-Platz 2
  • 50676 Köln
  • Deutschland
  • +49 221 201890
  • http://www.khm.de

Katharina Pethke

Born 1979 in Hamburg;
2003 - 2010 Academy of Media Arts Cologne;
2007 - 2010 scholarship from the German National Merit Foundation;
2011 award for young artists (film) of North-Rhine Westphalia

Filmography
2005 Anophtalmus
2007 In Liebe - Britta Schmidt
2009 In dir muss brennen