Summer Hit (short film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Summer hit |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | English , Spanish , Icelandic , German |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 19 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Berthold Wahjudi |
| script | Berthold Wahjudi |
| production | Melissa Byrne, Philipp Link |
| music | Florian Paul, Nils Wrasse |
| camera | Tobias Blickle |
| cut | Berthold Wahjudi, Philipp Link |
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Summer Hit (Tagline A Semester Abroad ) is a short film by Berthold Wahjudi that premiered at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival in January 2019 . In the film, two Erasmus students engage in a relationship that was initially thought to be purely sexual during their semester abroad in Munich.
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The young Spaniard Laia is spending a semester abroad in Munich as part of the Erasmus program. After spending a night with Emil, a student from Iceland with whom she started a sexual relationship this summer, she leaves his apartment. However, she forgot her loot with him. When she hears about this in a text message from Emil, she jumps out of the taxi and hangs out the driver who is trying to pursue her.
When she meets Emil in the university cafeteria, he is pissed off because she has not contacted him for three days. Emil fell a little in love with Laia, but sometimes he doesn't understand how she reacts. After another sex and another misunderstanding, he leaves his own apartment angry. He leaves Laia behind, who locks herself out and therefore only has to take public transport to go home wearing a shirt.
When she sees Emil again a little later at a party and she wants to send him home in a taxi because he is sick from smoking the bong, the driver is the one who was able to hang out from Laia a few days earlier. But now she wants her money, and Laia has to withdraw it with Emil's EC card. She takes him to her apartment, where she shares a room with Rodrigo. There she notices that after her return to Spain she will miss Emil as much as he will miss her.
The next morning Emil reveals to her that he didn't return her wallet straight away because he wanted to see her again. But now he gives it back to Laia and leaves. But this time he forgot something in her apartment, namely his smartphone. Laia keeps this again so that there is an opportunity to see Emil again.
production
It is in Summer Hit a production of Good Time film in cooperation with the University of Television and Film Munich . Directed by Berthold Wahjudi , who also wrote the script.
Martina Roura, who plays Laia, had previously worked on a short film. For Atli Benedikt, who plays Emil, it is the first ever film role. Leonard Dick plays Laia's roommate Rodrigo. The shooting took place in Munich.
The music for the film comes from Florian Paul and Nils Wrasse and was produced by WOTS Music. During the recording Flurin Mück (drums), Robin Jermer (double bass), Paul Brändle (guitar), Sam Hylton (piano), Jakob Grimm (bass trombone) and Nils Wrasse (saxophone) played.
The film was first shown on January 16, 2019 at the Max Ophüls Prize film festival . In late June 2019, he was presented at the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival. After the cancellation of the South by Southwest Film Festival , where the film was to be shown in March 2020, the independent film distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories and the technology company Mailchimp made the film available free of charge on a joint online platform for 30 days. After that, the makers of the film can decide whether to let it run there for two more years with an SVOD license . In addition, Summer Hit is one of the films that should be shown at the South by Southwest Film Festival and are made available virtually by Amazon through a cooperation with Amazon Prime Video as part of the “SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection”. The film will be available for free in the US for ten days in front of the Prime Video paywall.
reception
Reviews
From the German Film and Media Review was Summer Hit with the predicate particularly valuable provided. The jury's justification states that the film perfectly matches the mood among the students and the emotional fluctuations between Laia and Emil. Combined with a believable realistic setting, supported by the coarse-grained film material, the film gets an almost documentary touch. This is also due to the coherent cast with good and unobtrusive play, even down to the supporting roles. The excellent script relies on short and precise dialogues. The reasoning also mentions very good camera work and equally good assembly.
Awards (selection)
Film Art Weeks Munich 2020
- Awarded the Starter Film Prize ( Berthold Wahjudi )
film-ready! - Federal Festival of Young Film 2019
- Award in the Special Screenplay category (Berthold Wahjudi)
- Award as a special film on the subject of the future and Europe
Palm Springs International ShortFest 2019
- Award for best film in the category Live Action Short over 15 minutes
South by Southwest Film Festival 2020
- Nomination for the Grand Jury Award - Narrative Short (Berthold Wahjudi)
Web links
- Summer Hit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summer hit at crew united
- Summer hit in the program of the Max Ophüls Preis film festival
- Summer Hit from Oscilloscope Laboratories / Mailchimp (Video)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Summer Hit . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 196233 / K).
- ↑ Summer Hit. In: gutezeit-film.com. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
- ↑ Chris Lindahl: Most SXSW Shorts Are Streaming Free Thanks to Oscilloscope and Mailchimp. In: indiewire.com, March 25, 2020.
- ↑ Kim Lyons: Amazon will feature SXSW films in a virtual film festival on Prime Video. In: theverge.com, April 2, 2020.
- ↑ Tatiana Siegel: SXSW-Amazon Virtual Fest Sets Lineup for April 27 Launch. In: The Hollywood Reporter, April 21, 2020.
- ↑ Summer Hit. In: fbw-filmbeval.com. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
- ↑ https://filmkunstwochen-muenchen.de/2020/08/starter-filmpreise-2020-bei-den-filmkunstwochen/