Kids Run

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Movie
Original title Kids Run
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2020
length 104 minutes
Rod
Director Barbara Ott
script Barbara Ott
production Martin Heisler ,
Gabriele Simon
music Paradox Paradise
camera Falko Lachmund
cut Halina Daugird ,
Gregory Schuchmann
occupation

Kids Run is a film drama by Barbara Ott that premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2020 and is due to hit German cinemas on November 26, 2020.

action

Andi Javanovich is in his mid-twenties, and the young, quick-tempered man from precarious circumstances is already the father of three children. Two children, his son Ronny and his daughter Nikki, do not live with their mother Isa, but with him. Fiou, his infant daughter, lives with Andi's ex-girlfriend Sonja and her new and very solvent boyfriend Mike, but he regularly has the little one with him. The constant responsibility for his children and the attempt to win back his ex-girlfriend Sonja in order to start a family with her determine his life. Andi sometimes works for a demolition company, sometimes he helps sort out scrap metal. When he can no longer pay his rent and threatens to be thrown out of the apartment, he doesn't know how to get the money. Isa has nothing herself, and Sonja is reluctant to lend him the rent for the rent.

Andi thinks he'll get Sonja back when he has as much money as her boyfriend Mike for the first time. When he lost his job and asked Sonja several thousand euros back at short notice, with which he had already paid the rent and he was afraid that she would not let him see Fiou anymore, he saw only one chance to get the money. He wants to take part in an amateur boxing tournament. Many of his work and boxing colleagues do not trust him to do this, and Mikael in particular is worried about Andi's children and reminds him of his previous serious injuries, which he sustained during his defeats. But this time Andi wants to win for the good of his children and takes the training very seriously.

Andi now trains during the day and at night he cleans the Cassiopeia nightclub, where he later works as a security man. But here, too, he messes with colleagues. Because Sonja tries to bail him out again, she loses her new job in the catering area of ​​a drive-in theater. She no longer wants to let him screw her life up and tells him that she wants to marry Mike and move away with him.

In the days leading up to the fighting, Andi realizes that Isa, with whom he can accommodate the two children in an emergency, cannot be relied on. She doesn't have as loving a relationship with them as her father, and even locks them up in her apartment for several days. Andi can win the first fight in the preliminary round of the price fight, while Mikael acts as his coach and Ronny and Nikki sit in the audience. In his fight against the Albanian Fatih in the "Amateur Fight Nights", Andi is completely inferior. The children can hardly bear to watch their father being beaten up. After he went down, Andi leaves the ring, packs his children, takes Fiou out of Mike's car, and together they get on the next long-distance bus. Because Andi can't answer his children's questions about how and where things should go on, Andi goes to Sonja.

production

Jannis Niewöhner plays Andi, father of three

It acts with kids run around the feature film directorial debut of Barbara Ott , who also wrote the screenplay.

The film received production funding of 500,000 euros from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, production funding of 400,000 euros from the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and 305,000 euros from the German Film Funding Fund .

The main role of Andi was cast with Jannis Niewöhner. Carol Schuler plays Isa, the mother of his son Ronny and his daughter Nikki, who are played by Giuseppe Bonvissuto and Eline Doenst . Lena Tronina plays Sonja, the mother of his youngest daughter Fiou. Rostyslav Bome took on the role of Sonja's new friend Mike. Sascha Alexander Geršak plays Andi's friend and boxing trainer Mikael.

Filming began at the end of February 2018 and ended in mid-April 2018 and took place in Cologne and the surrounding area.

The film was first shown on February 21, 2020 as part of the Berlin Film Festival in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section, where it was shown as the opening film. In June 2020 it was featured at the virtual edition of the Sydney Film Festival . At the end of August 2020, the film will be presented in international competition at the Molodist International Film Festival , which will take place in a hybrid version. A theatrical release in Germany is planned for November 26, 2020.

reception

Reviews

In the Berlinale Critics' Review by Film plus , Kids Run was rated above average.

Jens Balkenborg from epd Film writes that the film lives from its ambivalent main character: “Andi is the embodiment of aggressive, destructive-toxic masculinity, literally captured in pictures, for example when he tears down old buildings on the construction site. Pedagogically he reaches for the crowbar with partly aggressive method of education. "However, Andi was a loving and beloved father, beams Borg, and it was an unconventional look with which Barbara Ott here the fatherhood captures in all its dramatic consequences.

Sarah Ward of Screen International film magazine noted that Ott appropriately kept her feature film debut in visual and thematic shades of gray as she explored the volatile minds and lack of support of people on the fringes of society. She emphasizes the performance of Jannis Niewöhner , and the unconditional love of Nikki and Ronny for their father lend a glimmer of hope to a film that otherwise fluctuates between desolation and melancholy.

Awards

Berlin International Film Festival 2020

  • Nomination for the Compass-Perspektive-Award
  • Nomination for Best First Feature

Molodist International Film Festival 2020

  • Nomination in international competition
  • Special Jury Diploma in Competition ( Barbara Ott )

Thomas Strittmatter Screenplay Award 2017

  • Nomination for Best Screenplay (Barbara Ott)

Web links

Commons : Kids Run  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Perspektive Deutsches Kino premieres at Kino International in the future. In: berlinale.de. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c shooting for “Kids Run” in Cologne. In: filmstiftung.de, April 4, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Jochen Müller: Photo of the day: On the set of "Kids Run". In: Blickpunkt: Film, April 5, 2019.
  4. ↑ Bert Schulz: "Joy, pride, excitement, nausea" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 15, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 43 ( taz.de [accessed on February 16, 2020]).
  5. ↑ a b Thomas Strittmatter Prize 2017. In: mfg.de, January 9, 2017.
  6. ↑ https://www.programmkino.de/content/News/bkm-verleih.html
  7. ↑ Minister of State Grütters supports feature film projects with around 2.7 million euros. In: www.bundesregierung.de. July 18, 2017, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  8. ↑ German Film Fund | Funding commitments. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Jochen Müller: First films for Berlinale 2020. In: Blickpunkt: Film, December 17, 2019.
  10. ↑ Kids Run. In: sff.au. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  11. ↑ a b 150 films: International film festival “Molodist” announced the program. In: cinema.in.ua, August 8, 2020.
  12. ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  13. ↑ https://filmpluskritik.com/2020/02/20/berlinale-2020-kritikerspiegel-ratings/
  14. ↑ Jens Balkenborg: Perspective: "Kids Run". In: epd Film, February 21, 2020.
  15. ↑ Sarah Ward: Kids Run. In: screendaily.com, March 11, 2020.
  16. ^ Perspective German Cinema Premieres to Take Place at Kino International. In: berlinale.de, December 17, 2019.
  17. ↑ GWFF Award for Best First Feature. In: berlinale.de. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  18. ↑ 49th KIFF Molodist Announces Winners. In: molodist.com, August 29, 2020.