Soleil movie
Soleil Film GmbH is an Austrian production company for feature and documentary films based in Vienna .
history
Soleil Film was founded by Jürgen Karasek, Filip Antoni Malinowski and Alice Karasek in October 2008 following the release of the feature film Waiting for the Moon (Director: Jürgen Karasek).
With the aim of giving "small and personal stories [...] a little insight into the lives of individuals in socio-political conflicts and developments", or to research complex macrocosms using "stories with global influences and existing connections", have since In 2008 numerous documentaries and feature films were produced for cinema and television. The focus here is both on social and political issues of societal relevance and on innovative artistic implementation.
Productions
A large number of the films produced by Soleil Film have been presented and awarded at major international festivals. The documentary Gwendolyn by Ruth Kaaserer (2017), a sensitive portrait of the weightlifter and anthropologist Gwendolyn Leick, had its world premiere in the DOK Leipzig 2017 competition and was shown at the IDFA in Amsterdam and was shown at the Viennale. The film also was the Franz Grabner Award for best feature documentary as well as the value-added price of the Viennale excellent and received the awards for best art work and the best mounting on the diagonal 2018th
Also Namrud (Troublemaker) by Fernando Romero Forest Huber (2017), a documentary about the polarizing Palestinian-Israeli musician Jowan Safadi, had its world premiere at DOK Leipzig 2017 and was among others at DOK.fest Munich and Crossing Europe in Linz. The highly acclaimed documentary Guardians of the Earth by Filip Antoni Malinowski (2017), which gives a deep insight into the structures of the climate summit in Paris in 2015, was shown at CPH: Dox and DocsMX, among others. In 2012, Soleil Film released Filip Antoni Malinowski's first feature-length documentary about his Polish grandparents Maria must pack , which premiered at the Krakow Film Festival.
The mentioned documentaries all had regular cinema releases in Austria. There were also cinema releases in other countries such as Germany, Spain and Poland.
In addition, Soleil Film has produced numerous short and medium-length films over the past few years, which have screened at several international film festivals. Novemberlichter (2013) and Der Ausflug (2018), both by Jürgen Karasek, were each awarded the Thomas Pluch screenplay award and ran among others. a. at the Max-Ophüls-Filmfestival and the Hof International Film Festival. Sebastian Schmidl's Liebling (2015) was shown at the Max Ophüls Film Festival and was nominated for the First Steps Award. In the future, Soleil Film will also increasingly be working on full-length feature films.
Filmography (selection)
Documentaries
- 2017 "GWENDOLYN", documentary film - director: Ruth Kaaserer
- 2017 “GUARDIANS OF THE EARTH”, feature documentary film - director: Filip Antoni Malinowski
- 2017 "NAMRUD (TROUBLEMAKER)", documentary film - Director: Fernando Romero-Forsthuber
- 2014 "OLYA'S LOVE", feature documentary - director: Kirill Sakharnov
- 2014 “BETWEEN SPOTLIGHT AND RED LIGHT”, TV documentary film - director: Karoline Heflin-Tekirdali
- 2013 “HI-JEW-POSITIVE”, feature documentary film - Director: Ronit Kertsner
- 2012 "MARIA MUST PACKEN", feature documentary film - director: Filip Antoni Malinowski
- 2012 "LOVE TRIPS", feature documentary - director: Carlo Pisani
Feature films
- 2018 “THE EXCURSION”, medium-length film - director: Jürgen Karasek
- 2015 “LIEBLING”, medium-length film - director: Sebastian Schmidl
- 2015 “DER DAMM”, medium-length film - director: Nikolaus Müller
- 2013 “SOLA”, short film - director: Alexandra Makarová
- 2012 “ NOVEMBERLICHTER ”, short film - director: Jürgen Karasek
- 2007 “WAITING FOR THE MOON”, feature film, director: Jürgen Karasek
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Soleil Film GmbH - Blog Austria | who we are. Accessed November 12, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Soleil Film GmbH - Blog Austria | News from film production Vienna. Accessed November 12, 2018 (German).
- ^ Franz Grabner Prize 2018 . In: Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Films | 13-18 March 2018 . ( diagonale.at [accessed on November 12, 2018]).
- ↑ Guardians Of The Earth - A documentary by Filip Antoni Malinowski. Accessed November 12, 2018 (German).