Supa Modo

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Movie
Original title Supa Modo
Country of production Germany , Kenya
original language Swahili
Publishing year 2018
length 74 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Likarion Wainaina
script Mugambi Nthiga ,
Silas Miami ,
Wanjeri Gakuru ,
Kamau Wa Ndung'u
production Sarika Lakhani ,
Marie Steinmann-Tykwer ,
Tom Tykwer ,
Ginger Wilson ,
Guy Wilson
music Sean Peevers
camera Enos Olik ,
Volker Tittel
cut Charity Kuria
occupation

Supa Modo is a German-Kenyan children's feature film from 2018 . The director was the Kenyan filmmaker Likarion Wainaina . The screenplay was written by Mugambi Nthiga (lead screenwriter), Silas Miami, Wanjeri Gakuru and Kamau Wa Ndung'u. The story of Supa Modo is loosely based on the director's personal experiences.

The main role of the nine-year-old Jo is played by Stycie Waweru . It is her first film role.

action

Jo is nine years old and a happy girl who loves films - especially those with superheroes. In her imagination, Jo often becomes a superhero. Then she is super powerful, can move things with her thoughts and fly! Movies and superhero dreams are so important to Jo because she has cancer and lives in hospital with many other sick children. Here the little patients are shown films by cinema operator Mike again and again. A welcome distraction and, above all, always new food for Jo's fanatic excursions. When the doctors tell Jo's mother, Kathryn, that there is no cure in sight and that her life expectancy will no longer be particularly long, Kathryn decides to take Jo out of the hospital and back to her home. Once at home, Jo is far from her friends and from the distractions of the regular film screenings in the hospital. Jo's big sister Mwix feels that Jo is suffering from this loneliness and tries to distract her with little games. One game is that Mwix pretends that Jo really has super powers. So she ties a transparent thread to a salt shaker and tells Jo to move the shaker with her thoughts. And whoosh, the salt shaker moves as Mwix pulls on the transparent thread. Of course, Jo has a lot of fun with this game and Mwix encourages others to join in too. So Jo "freezes" the whole soccer team and manages to score a goal despite her weak physical constitution.

To make Jo's remaining time beautiful, Mwix decides to help Jo with her greatest dream of making a film in which Jo plays the superhero: Supa Modo. Since Jo's body is getting weaker and weaker, Kathryn is strictly against the idea. Fortunately, she realizes how much this project is close to her daughter's heart and decides to help and asks the villagers to support the project. And so, with a lot of love and with the help of an entire village, a superhero film is created in which Jo is a true superhero. So, before her illness finally ripped her out of her life, Jo was able to realize her big dream and become the superhero with Supa Modo, who has always been in her and thus leaves a lasting memory for her family and friends.

background

Supa Modo was the sixth film to be made as part of the annual “One Fine Day Films Workshop” run by the film production company One Fine Day Films . The film music was composed by the Kenyan film music composer Sean Peevers and recorded in Germany with the young orchestra NRW . The film was first presented to the public on February 18, 2018 at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival and is expected to hit German cinemas on April 18, 2019.

Awards

  • Audience Award "Best Feature Narrative" - ​​Alexander Valley Film Festival 2018
  • Best Indigenous Language Movie (Swahili) - AMVCA 2018
  • Best New Director - Capetown International Film Festival 2018
  • Winner Best Youth Film - Cinekid 2018
  • Winner Audience Choice Award Best Film - The Jozi Film Festival 2018
  • ECFA Award - Kristiansand International Children's Film Festival 2018
  • Winner Youth Jury Award - Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival 2018
  • Winner of the youth and children's film award of the Goethe-Institut - SCHLINGEL International Film Festival 2018
  • Official Selection - TIFF Kids International Film Festival 2018
  • Winner Golden Dhow Award - ZIFF 2018

Reviews

“'Supa Modo' is a stirring drama. The preference for often frowned upon superhero films is celebrated by 'Supa Modo' from Kenya, which was created as part of a project that Tom Tykwer initiated to support African filmmakers. (...) a rousing drama about childlike strength, vital grief work and fantasy - a declaration of love for the magical world of the cinema. "

- Cologne city gazette

“Other Lucas films are perceived as beautiful, and everyone cries. Almost all. 'Supa Modo' (2018 Kenya / Germany), created with the support of Tom Tykwer's Africa project One Fine Day Films, makes the cinema of the German Filmmuseum on the banks of the Main in Frankfurt go very quiet. 'She is our child!', Defiantly recited by a villager on behalf of all villagers, is a typical Lucas sentence that stands for the good in the hopeless, consolation for the inconsolable. They wouldn't have cried, afterwards they can only say the tough guys among the ten year old boys. "

- Frankfurter Rundschau

“Supa Modo is therefore a superhero film in the truest sense of the word, which at no moment does it run the risk of sentimental farewell scenes. That is one of the reasons why it is a film whose superpower lies in being able to believe in the eternity of fantasy and in its power, which no death could ever harm. "

- www.kino-zeit.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Supa Modo . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; April 2019; test number: 189 052 K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Supa Modo. In: filmdienst.de. Film service , accessed April 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Prizes & Awards 2018. Accessed April 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ AVFF2018 RECAP | Alexander Valley Film Society. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Best Indigenous Language Movies - AMVCA 2018. Accessed April 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Cape Town International Film Market & Festival - CTIFMF - A film industry platform to create, collaborate, and celebrate the exciting and often untapped potential of this eclectic industry. Retrieved April 2, 2019 (en-ZA).
  7. ↑ Winners Cinekid's TV and film awards announced | Cinekid. Retrieved April 2, 2019 (Dutch).
  8. ^ Durban International Film Festival - Feature Films. Retrieved April 2, 2019 (UK English).
  9. ↑ Award Winners Announced at 72nd Edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival | Edinburgh International Film Festival. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Teboho Sandamela: Jozi Film Festival 2018 - The Winners! In: BASA. October 1, 2018, Retrieved April 2, 2019 (American English).
  11. ^ ECFA Award Winners - European Children's Film Association. Retrieved April 2, 2019 (UK English).
  12. ↑ 38th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival - April 4-20, 2019–2018 Award Winners. Retrieved April 2, 2019 (American English).
  13. ↑ Prize winners | SCHLINGEL - International Film Festival. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Supa Modo. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Supa Modo Takes Home The Golden Dhow Award At ZIFF 2018. July 16, 2018, accessed April 2, 2019 (American English).
  16. ↑ SUPA MODO wins the SCORE Bernhard Wicki Prize at the 29th Emden-Norderney International Film Festival. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  17. ↑ MICHEL film award. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Horst Peter Koll: Superheroes Don't Die: Why Cinzepänz is an outstanding Cologne cultural event. November 27, 2018, accessed April 2, 2019 .
  19. ↑ What is a film? September 26, 2018, accessed April 2, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Supa Modo (2018) | Film, trailer, review. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .