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FreibeuterFilm is an Austrian production company based in Vienna , founded in 2007 by producer / editor Oliver Neumann , producer / production manager Sabine Moser, and directors Sudabeh Mortezai and Sebastian Meise. The team includes Lena Krins, responsible for production coordination, and production assistant Vassili Firsov. Its primary goal is to "offer a platform for innovative, personal projects in the fields of creative documentary and feature film" and to create space for critical discussion of socially relevant issues. Idiosyncratic film projects are supported and cross-border co-productions are initiated that are implemented with high artistic standards.

Productions

Since it was founded, FreibeuterFilm has successfully produced numerous documentaries and feature films for the international cinema market. The documentaries made so far deal in different ways with certain social, political and societal realities. While Sudabeh Mortezai documents the phenomenon of temporary marriage in Iran in her film In the Bazaar of the Sexes , Fritz Ofner illuminates the background and social effects of the civil war in Guatemala in Evolution of Violence , Sebastian Meise draws the portrait of a young man in Outing who is open about his pedophile tendencies. Sebastian Meise's family drama Still Life , which also deals with the taboo subject of pedophilia, received, among other things, the Great Diagonale Prize in 2012 for best feature film.

With the success of the documentary My No Family , in which director Paul-Julien Robert looks back on his childhood in the Friedrichshof commune founded by Otto Muehl in 1970 , FreibeuterFilm received more attention. The film has won several awards, including the Vienna Film Prize 2012 and the Austrian Film Prize 2014 in the “Best Documentary” category. At the 57th London Film Festival was my no family named best documentary and awarded the prestigious Grierson Award.

In 2013 FreibeuterFilm produced two more feature films: Johanna Moder’s first feature film , High Performance - Mandarins Don't Lie , tells the story of two brothers who, in their life choices, have set up a world based on fundamentally different values. The drama alternates between tragic circumstances and comedic attempts at solutions. In 2014, High Performance won the audience award at the Max Ophüls Festival . Sudabeh Mortezai's debut feature film Macondo , which won the Vienna Film Prize 2014 and the Erste Bank Value-Added Film Prize as the best feature film during its Austrian premiere at the Viennale, received great international attention . The title "Macondo" refers to the location of the film, "a rough refugee settlement in the middle of the industrial area on the outskirts of Vienna" in which the protagonist, an eleven-year-old Chechen boy named Ramasan, grows up alone with his mother and two younger sisters. The film was the only Austrian contribution to the main competition at the 64th Berlinale and was awarded the Firebird Award at the 2014 Hong Kong International Film Festival.

Filmography

Feature films

Documentaries

Awards (selection)

  • Macondo - Firebird Award at the 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival, Vienna Film Award 2014 as best feature film and Diagonale Award for innovative production in 2015
  • High Performance - Audience Award Max Ophüls Festival 2014.
  • My no family - Austrian Film Prize 2014 and Vienna Film Prize 2012 for Best Documentary.
  • Still Life - Grand Diagonale Prize 2012 for Best Fiction Film.
  • Adrienn Pál - FIPRESCI Prize Cannes 2010 and Crossing Europe Audience Prize 2011.
  • In the Bazaar of the Sexes - best international documentary DocsDF Mexico 2010 and best feature film Espiello 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.freibeuterfilm.at - “About Us”, accessed on November 7, 2014
  2. ↑ www.macondo-film.com - "Contents", accessed on November 11, 2014