Tomorrow we are free
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Tomorrow we are free |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , Persian , English |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hossein Pourseifi |
| script | Hossein Pourseifi |
| production |
Ali Samadi Ahadi , Mohammad Farokhmanesh , Frank Geiger , Armin Hofmann |
| music | Ali N. Askin |
| camera | Patrick Orth |
| cut | Katharina Schmidt |
| occupation | |
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Tomorrow We're Free is a historical film drama by Hossein Pourseifi from 2019.
action
Although the Islamic Revolution took place in Iran in 1979 , the East German chemist Beate followed her husband Omid, an Iranian dissident living in the GDR, full of love and hope in his homeland. After the initial mood of optimism, however, life for Beate and her daughter Sarah becomes hell, as arbitrariness, violence and religious doctrines seize the country.
production
Directed by Hossein Pourseifi , who also wrote the script, which is based on real events. Pourseifi, who moved from Iran to Germany at the age of nine, spent seven years in the USA, where he studied engineering and technical communication. In 2011 he was a participant in the Berlinale Talent Campus and then realized the melodrama Dream of the Ocean in 2012/13 as a graduate of the ifs author program .
The film received production funding from the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW in the amount of 450,000 euros and from the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein in the amount of 180,000 euros, along with a distribution grant of 50,000 euros. The German Film Funds funded the project with 257,000 euros.
The shooting took place from September 20 to the beginning of November 2017 in Cologne and Spain .
At the end of September and beginning of October 2019 it was shown at the Hamburg Film Festival . In October 2019 it was presented at the Film Festival Cologne .
reception
Raimund Gerz from epd Film explains that the film moves almost exclusively in a family context, with the revolutionary events being outlined using documentary material. By personalizing the conflicts, Hossein Pourseifi managed to keep the tension high until the end, Gerz continued: “This typification also turns the film into a kind of political lesson in which the people exemplify certain ideological positions: the image a self-determined woman like Beate, for tactical opportunism like Omid's comrades, for an uncompromising struggle for freedom like the young student who is murdered on the street for this, or for an inhuman dictatorship like the henchmen of the regime. ”The individuality of the people comes into play not too short, as is the explanation of the historical background.
The German Film and Media Review sided morning we are free with the predicate particularly valuable . The reasoning states that the dense and excitingly conceived film shines with a very stringent development of the female figure, whereby the narrative perspective adheres to the female protagonist, but remains open to several approaches. Tomorrow we are free is an important film at a time that is having a hard time taking a sober look at the fluid boundaries between ideology and religion.
Awards
Filmfest Hamburg 2019
- Nomination for the Art Cinema Award ( Hossein Pourseifi )
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2019
- Nomination in the First Feature Competition (Hossein Pourseifi)
Web links
- Tomorrow, we are free at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tomorrow we're free at crew united
- We're free tomorrow - information about the film from Little Dream Pictures
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for tomorrow we are free . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 191576 / K).
- ↑ Tomorrow we are free. In: littledream-entertainment.com. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
- ↑ Heike Angermaier: Little Dream starts with revolutionary material. In: Blickpunkt: Film, September 21, 2017.
- ↑ Tomorrow we are free. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
- ↑ Hossein Pourseifi. In: berlinale-talents.de. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
- ↑ https://www.etzundwels.de/hossein-pourseifi
- ↑ Tomorrow we are free. In: filmfesthamburg.de. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
- ^ Film Festival Cologne: Festival program. In: filmfestival.cologne. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
- ↑ Raimund Gerz: Criticism for tomorrow we are free. In: epd Film, October 25, 2019.
- ↑ Tomorrow we are free. In: fbw-filmbeval.com (German film and media evaluation). Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ↑ Nominations: Art Cinema Award. In: filmfesthamburg.de. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
- ↑ Marta Balaga: Tallinn Black Nights rounds off its First Feature Competition line-up. In: cineuropa.org, October 22, 2019.