Nora Fingscheidt

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Nora Fingscheidt at the presentation of her film Systemsprenger at the Berlinale 2019

Nora Fingscheidt (born February 17, 1983 in Braunschweig ) is a German film director and screenwriter . For her short film work, she was invited to the competition of the Max Ophüls Prize film festival several times from 2011 . In 2017 she won the main prize there for her documentary Without This World . Her first feature film Systemsprenger was awarded the Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlinale 2019 , which was followed by eight German Film Awards and a number of international film and festival awards .

Life

Training and first contacts with film

Nora Fingscheidt attended schools in Braunschweig and Argentina . From 2003 she lived in Berlin , where she was involved as a member of the board in setting up the self-organized film school filmArche eV . Under the umbrella of the association, Fingscheidt began making her own short films as a director, including the 15-minute Objet trouvé (2005) with Katharina Bellena and Jaron Löwenberg in the leading roles. She was also involved in the European youth film network NISI MASA and was responsible for executing several international youth film projects. At the same time, Fingscheidt trained as an acting coach , worked as a unit manager on the short films Lichtblick (2007, directors: Lars Jandel and Tom Zenker) and Personenschaden (2009, directed: Dustin Loose ) and also worked as an assistant director on the documentary Schöne blonde Augen (2009 , Directed by Simon Brückner and Anna Reinking) and the filmArche short fiction film Emma - The End of Childhood (2008) by Vanessa Gräfingholt in appearance. She also worked temporarily in the protocol department of the Berlin International Film Festival .

Studied directing and repeated invitations to the Max Ophüls Prize film festival

From 2008 to 2017, Fingscheidt studied stage directing at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy . In the second year of her studies she made the short fiction film Synkope (2010), in which she also worked on the script together with Carl Gerber. The 24-minute work is about a father (played by Peter Benedict ) who is hosting his daughter's engagement party and tearing open old wounds when he meets his ex-wife and her partner. Synkope was invited to the competition of the Max Ophüls Preis film festival , received a nomination for the German Short Film Award in 2011 and an honorable mention at the Dresden Film Festival in 2012 . Fingscheidt received a renewed invitation to the Max Ophüls Prize film festival for the short film Between the Lines (2011). The 9-Minüter is based in Hungary in 1946 and is about a Hungarian police officer who, under pressure from the authorities, has to deport his Hungarian-German foster father and his family from the traditional farm.

In 2012, Fingscheidt took part in the Berlinale Talents program and in an exchange with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 2013 she released the 45-minute feature film Little Brothers with Leonie Benesch and Stefan Rudolf in the leading roles. The story of two half-siblings who met on a small North Sea peninsula after the death of their father brought Fingscheidt the third invitation to the Max Ophüls Prize film festival. She then devoted herself to documentaries with Boulevard's End and Das Haus besides the Gleisen (both 2014). While the 15-minute Boulevard's End is about the Venice Pier in Venice Beach , USA, she realized Das Haus Beside the Tracks together with Simone Gaul. The 72-minute strip observes everyday life in the women's pension in Stuttgart , a home for homeless women.

Success with "Without this world" and "Systemsprenger"

For the short film Die License (2016), Fingscheidt received her fourth invitation to the Max Ophüls Prize film festival. The 10-minute film is about a married couple (portrayed by Julia Becker and Manolo Bertling ) who want to reproduce but are dependent on the decision-making power of an officer ( Anna Böttcher ). One year later, Fingscheidt completed her training as a director with the documentary Without this World (2017). The portrait of a group of Mennonites of German origin in northern Argentina who refused to make any progress was allowed to shoot with a small film team within two months. The shooting turned out to be difficult because Fingscheidt was met with open rejection at times during her stay. Only a few Mennonites actually consented to be filmed by the camera. "At first I would sometimes sit with some of them for half an hour - and not a single word was uttered even though we hadn't even turned on the camera," says Fingscheidt. Nevertheless, Ohne die Welt was the filmmaker's greatest success to date. In 2017 she received the Documentary Film Award at the Max Ophüls Film Festival and also won the First Steps Awards in the same category.

In 2019, Fingscheidt was invited to the competition of the 69th Berlinale for her feature film debut Systemsprenger, where she was honored with the Alfred Bauer Prize and the Prize of the Readers' Jury of the Berliner Morgenpost . The story of a 9-year-old girl (played by Helena Zengel ) that as titular System blaster passes through an ordeal between changing foster care and anti-aggression training, several awards had received before completion. Fingscheidt's script received the script award at the Emden-Norderney International Film Festival in 2016 and the Thomas Strittmatter script award and the Kompagnon award of the Berlinale Talents program in 2017 . The jury at the Berlinale around Feo Aladag , Sigrid Hoerner and Johannes Naber praised Fingscheidt's script as “an oppressive, sensitive and carefully researched scenario about our educational system and a moving, humanistic plea for the 'difficult', the non-conformists, the supposedly dysfunctional ". In August 2019, Systemsprenger was selected as a German proposal for the category “ best international feature film ” at the 2020 Academy Awards , but was not shortlisted. At the presentation of the German Film Prize 2020 , Systemsprenger received eight awards, including the Gold Film Prize for Best Fiction Film and Fingscheidt for Best Director and Best Screenplay .

Following the success of Systemsprenger , Fingscheidt was entrusted with directing her first English-language feature film in spring 2020. In the as yet untitled Netflix production, the American actress Sandra Bullock is supposed to play the lead role of a former prison inmate who, after her release, is fighting for the acceptance of family and friends. The film, which Bullock is also co-producing, has other roles with Viola Davis , Vincent D'Onofrio , Jon Bernthal and Richard Thomas . Christopher McQuarrie's script is based on the award-winning British miniseries Unforgiven (2009). Filming in Vancouver , Canada had to be interrupted due to the global COVID-19 pandemic .

family

Nora Fingscheidt lives with her family in Hamburg . She is the mother of a son.

Filmography

Fingscheidt at the Berlinale 2019

Fictional works

  • 2005: Objet trouvé (short film) - director
  • 2007: Auszeit (short film) - director
  • 2008: Dorfmattress (short film) - director
  • 2008: Escape attempt (short film) - director
  • 2010: Synkope (short film) - direction and co-screenplay with Carl Gerber
  • 2011: Between the Lines (short film) - director
  • 2013: Brüderlein - direction and co-script with Carl Gerber
  • 2016: The License (short film) - Director
  • 2019: Systemsprenger - direction and screenplay

Documentaries

  • 2014: Boulevard's End (short film) - director and screenplay
  • 2014: The house next to the tracks - co-director with Simone Gaul
  • 2017: Without this world - direction and screenplay

Awards

Fingscheidt with the Alfred Bauer Prize for system sprinkler

Web links

Commons : Nora Fingscheidt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nora Fingscheidt on «good times for women directors» . In: azonline.de, February 8, 2019 (accessed April 25, 2020).
  2. ↑ a b Profile at agenturhomebase.de (accessed on January 28, 2019).
  3. ↑ a b c Nora Fingscheidt at filmportal.de (accessed on January 28, 2019).
  4. ↑ a b press booklet for the film Systemsprenger , p. 8 (PDF file; 607 kB).
  5. ↑ Junghänel, Frank: Still in the mood for cinema . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 26, 2019, p. 28.
  6. ↑ Hauck, Simon: Without this world . In: kino-zeit.de (accessed on January 28, 2019).
  7. ↑ Prizes from independent juries . In: Berlinale.de (accessed on February 16, 2019).
  8. ↑ The two partner sponsorship awards Berlinale Talents and Perspektive Deutsches Kino go to Nora Fingscheidt as well as Levin Peter and Elsa Kremser . In: berlinale.de, February 17, 2014 (accessed January 28, 2019).
  9. ↑ Prize winners 2020 . In: deutscher-filmpreis.de (accessed April 25, 2020).
  10. ↑ Schuster, Barbara: Start of shooting for Netflix film by Nora Fingscheidt . In: beta.blickpunktfilm.de, February 6, 2020 (accessed April 24, 2020).
  11. ↑ Unforgiven . In: imdb.com (accessed April 24, 2020).
  12. ↑ Lola Talk: The Film Prize Podcast with Nora Fingscheidt and Knut Elstermann , 1:20 min ff. (Accessed on April 24, 2020).
  13. ↑ Press release for the film Systemsprenger , p. 14 (PDF file; 607 kB).
  14. ↑ The prizes of the 29th FILMKUNSTFEST MV have been awarded . Article dated May 4, 2019, accessed May 10, 2019.
  15. ↑ Christoph Silber: ROMY Academy selects winners: androids, underworlders and drug dealers. In: Kurier.at . May 19, 2020, accessed May 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Fingscheidt, Nora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig