With your stomach through the wall

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Movie
Original title With your stomach through the wall
Country of production Switzerland
original language Swiss German
Publishing year 2011
length 93 minutes
Rod
Director Anka Schmid
script Anka Schmid
production Franziska Reck ,
Reck Film Production
music Peter Bräker ,
Darko Linder
camera Patrick Lindenmaier ,
Anka Schmid
cut Marina Wernli ,
Matthias Bürcher

With the stomach through the wall is a Swiss documentary by director Anka Schmid from 2011 . The long-term documentary accompanies three teenage mothers, their children and their fathers for four years and shows how they mature into young women. The film had its international premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in the “Generation” section. The first performance in Switzerland was on May 12, 2011.

content

The long-term observation, which extends over four years, presents the different characters and living conditions of three Swiss teenage mothers and lets them have their say about their changing moods, their wishes and dreams.

While Sandra, thanks to the support of her in-laws, can successfully complete her apprenticeship with a high pregnancy rate and after the birth moves in with her beloved child's father and grows together into a family, Jasmine sees herself forced to bring her child into the home throughout the week in order to be able to do an internship. She finds support among her friends and fights for alimony for her little boy up to the court. Jennifer and her boyfriend Mwathi were a young dream couple, but as soon as the daughter is born, the love breaks and you cannot rely on the young father. But Jennifer has the support of her mother and balances skillfully between motherhood and education. Later, the budding rapper Mwathi sings about his behavior as an absent father and seeks contact with his little daughter again.

reception

The film was awarded the Zurich Film Prize in 2011 . The jury was particularly impressed by the proximity to the protagonists, which arose from the fact that the director shot a large part of the film on her own. The film is formally restrained and relies entirely on its characters, which reinforces the immediacy.

The documentary was extensively discussed in public and in the Swiss press. Bettina Spoerri wrote in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung that the protagonists of the film are “tough, but also very vulnerable young people who are looking for their way”. "The opportunities that are given or denied to them [...] are an incorruptible mirror of our society." Irene Genhart wrote in the Zürcher Landzeitung that the strength of the film lies "in the loose juxtaposition of the three stories" that make it possible abstract, draw parallels ”. The film is "a heart-warming, quietly mischievous - and stimulating for discussion - study about being young with children in Switzerland".

Festivals

  • January 23, 2011: World premiere of the Solothurn Film Festival
  • February 14, 2011: Berlinale Generations
  • November 24th to 30th, 2011: Frauenwelten Tübingen, Germany
  • September 27 to October 9, 2011: Kaunas International Film Festival, Lithuania
  • May 20-29, 2011: Showroom Workstation, Great Britain
  • May 29 to June 5, 2011: Zlin Children & Youth Film Festival, Czech Republic

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ With your stomach through the wall. Film data sheet. Berlin International Film Festival, accessed on January 13, 2015 .
  2. ↑ With the stomach through the wall in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed on January 13, 2015.
  3. ↑ Zurich Film Awards 2011. (PDF; 131 KB) Report of the Film Commission. City of Zurich, September 26, 2011, accessed on January 13, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Bettina Spoerri: Looking into the future. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 24, 2011, accessed on January 13, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Irene Genhart, Zürcher Landzeitung, January 26, 2011. In: Ciné-Portrait Anka Schmid . Swiss Films. February 2008. p. 13.
  6. ↑ With your stomach through the wall at Berlinale Generations