Naked animals
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Naked animals |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Melanie Waelde |
| script | Melanie Waelde |
| production |
Jan Fincke , Thorne Mutert , Anja Wedell |
| camera | Fion Mutert |
| cut | Jessica Schneller |
| occupation | |
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Naked Animals (English title Festival Naked Animals ) is a German feature film under the direction of Melanie Waelde , which is also the script wrote. The debut film celebrated its world premiere on February 21, 2020 at the Berlinale in the Encounters section , where it received an honorable mention from the jury of the GWFF's Best First Feature Award .
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Naked animals shows five young friends who are friends and try to cope with everyday life together. Katja, Sascha, Benni, Laila and Schöller grow up in nowhere in the province. The driver's license is the key to freedom and therefore also to recognition. The interplay of mutual attraction and demarcation, of closeness and distance, violence, love and loneliness characterize the relationships between the five young people, for whom closeness also means pain. Katja, a ju-jutsu martial artist, is 17 and is constantly struggling against her own weakness.
All five want to hold onto their peer group , their family of friends, in which they live according to their own rules. In the safety of the group they believe they can conquer the world and with their support they can withstand punches without batting an eyelid. But they only have one winter together until they graduate from school, until they have to make the choice of staying in their place or moving to the next larger city. The pain of separation is in the room, the departure into a still unknown world. For Katja it will be a painful and bloody farewell.
It is true that Naked Animals shows growing up as a time when invincibility still seems possible through the support of the group. But this phase is under the sword of Damocles, its end soon, because new challenges are pending.
Melanie Waelde said of Naked Animals that it was a film “that functions like a feeling, a memory and a vision of the future. A film that is where it hurts. Where the heart beats. Where we make ourselves vulnerable and at the same time try not to be. ”In a specific location, the film tells the metaphorical space of the transition from youth to adulthood and deals with violence, isolation, loneliness and inevitable pain.
production
The screenplay was written by the director Melanie Waelde in 2017 as a final thesis at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin . The film was produced by CZAR Film Berlin.
The shooting took place from February 8, 2019 to April 6, 2019 in Berlin-Brandenburg .
The main roles are Michelangelo Fortuzzi , Luna Schaller , Sammy Scheuritzel , Paul Michael Stiehler and Marie Tragousti .
The camera work was done by the actor and cameraman Fion Mutert , who embodied Sigmund in the film The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story . For Design were Marcel Bonewald and Isabelle C. Schnabel responsible. For the Editor was Jessica Fast charge; Facundo Sánchez is named as co-editor in the credits, but does not share the main credit with Schneller.
Déjà-vu Film UG is responsible for distribution, while Media Luna New Films UG is responsible for international marketing .
The debut film celebrated its world premiere on February 21, 2020 at the Berlinale , where it was screened in the new Encounters section . It will also be shown at the International Women's Film Festival Dortmund / Cologne .
The cinema release in Germany is planned for September 17, 2020.
Awards
The film at the Berlinale in 2020 with the award of the Prize Best First Feature of GWFF against the post Los conductos of Camilo Restrepo in the cold, but was considered by the jury with an honorable mention. At the European Work in Progress 2019 industry event at the Film Festival Cologne , Naked Animals received the Zoom Medienfabrik Award , which the production shared with The Whale Hunter .
Web links
- Naked Animals in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Berlinale catalog entry
- Website of the director Melanie Waelde
Individual evidence
- ↑ GWFF Award for Best First Feature. Retrieved May 27, 2020 .
- ↑ a b European Work in Progress selects winners. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
- ^ Naked Animals - 2020. Accessed February 7, 2020 .
- ↑ a b film details: FIRST STEPS. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c dejavu-film | NAKED ANIMALS. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Naked Animals (2020) | Film, trailer, review. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Film starts: Naked Animals. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Naked animals | Film 2020. Accessed February 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Naked animals | Drama Germany 2019 - Movie Wolf. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Melanie Waelde at the Berlinale 2020. Retrieved on February 7, 2020 .
- ↑ show person: FIRST STEPS. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Naked Animals Naked Animals. Retrieved February 24, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d Naked animals at crew united . Retrieved February 7, 2020.
- ↑ Fion Mutert. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Naked animals. In: Berlinale catalog . 2020, accessed February 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Complete program for the Berlinale Panorama. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
- ↑ GWFF Award for Best First Feature. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
- ↑ European Work in Progress selects winners. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
- ↑ News: Short and sweet - week 43/2019. October 23, 2019, accessed February 7, 2020 .