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film type fiction Production Country Germany production year 2013 runtime 15'00 colour
screening format DCP languages Deutsch Subtitles Englisch

Amal, a 13-year-old refugee from Lebanon, deals drugs in the Hanover underground. He lives an isolated life in a home for asylum seekers outside the city. One day he meets a young German girl who might be his saviour.

director Carolina Hellsgård Besetzung / Cast Artem Klevansky, Rebecca Stein Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Steffen Scholz Schnitt / Editing Carolina Hellsgård Drehbuch / Script Carolina Hellsgård Bildgestaltung / DOP Kathrin Krotthenthaler Produktion / Production Johanna Aust / Flickfilm Tongestaltung / Sound Design Robert Fuhrmann
Festivals
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France
Achtung Berlin Filmfestival, Germany
Rencontres Cinématographiques de Cerbère, France
Geneva International Film Festival Tous Ecrans, Genf, Switzerland
Festival Silhouette, Paris, France
Göteborg Film Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
exground filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany (Bester Vorfilm Youth Days)
PASSAGES Film Festival of Cinema of the Borders, Portbou, Spain (1st Prize)
Production
  • Flickfilm GbR
  • Johanna Aust
  • Hochkirchstr. 9/1
  • 10829 Berlin
  • +49 176 99474281
  • http://www.flickfilm.eu
Distribution
  • Flickfilm GbR
  • Johanna Aust
  • Hochkirchstr. 9/1
  • 10829 Berlin
  • +49 176 99474281
  • http://www.flickfilm.eu
Sales
  • Flickfilm GbR
  • Johanna Aust
  • Hochkirchstr. 9/1
  • 10829 Berlin
  • +49 176 99474281
  • http://www.flickfilm.eu

Carolina Hellsgård

Born 1977 in Stockholm;
2003-2007 studied at the Berlin University of the Arts;
2008-2009 studied film directing at the CalArts in Los Angeles;
her films have been screened and awarded at numerous festivals

Filmography
2008 Karaoke
2009 Hunger
2012 Hjältar