Uisenma Borchu

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Uisenma Borchu (2016)

Uisenma Borchu (actually Borchugjin Uisenma , Mongolian Борхүүгийн Үйзэнмаа , born June 1, 1984 in Ulaanbaatar ) is a Mongolian- German director and actress .

life and work

Uisenma Borchu came to the GDR with her family from Mongolia in 1989. From 2006 to 2015 she studied directing at the University of Television and Film Munich in the department of documentary film and television journalism. Her first documentary Donne-moi plus (2007) was invited by german films to the Festival de Cannes as part of the Next Generation Rolle . The film was shown in the Museum of Modern Art , New York , (2008) and in the Pinakothek der Moderne , Munich , (2012). With her documentary Sky Full of Violins (2011) she won the Megaherz Film School Award at the DokFest Munich 2012.

She was involved as an editor for the documentary film Preis des Goldes by Sven Zellner and Chingunjav Borkhuu . The film was awarded the ARTE Documentary Film Prize 2012 at the Duisburg Film Week .

Your diploma film at the University of Television and Film Munich is Don't look at me like that (2015). In the film, she plays a leading role alongside Catrina Stemmer, Josef Bierbichler and Anne-Marie Weisz. The film was rejected by various broadcasters and the film subsidy and has a very low budget from the university and the Society of Friends and Sponsors Association of the University of Television and Film in Munich e. V. originated. Don't look at me like that had its world premiere at the Munich Film Festival in 2015, where it won the Fipresci Film Critics Prize of the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique . In addition, the film was honored with an honorable mention at the International Tarragona Film Festival REC 2015, as best film at the Filmkunsttage Sachsen-Anhalt 2015, the Bavarian Film Prize for Young Directors 2015 and the Most Promising Talent Award 2016 at the Osaka Asian Film Festival. At the 18th Taipei Film Festival, Look At Me Was Not Honored With The Grand Prize In The International New Talent Competition.

In May 2016 Uisenma Borchu received the “Mongolian Woman of the Year” award from the Association for the Development of Mongolian Women in Europe in the Art / Culture / Sport category. At the 36th International Festival of the Munich Film Schools she was a member of the jury of the Interfilm Academy Munich for the Female Filmmakers Award .

In her first theater work NACHTS, AS THE SUN SHEEN FOR ME , Uisenma Borchu addressed her life story at the Kammerspiele in Munich in 2017 . With three actors and her father, the director brought her memories to life, with the remaining question: Is the time, can we catch up with the past? And can you get to the bottom of the riddle of who you are?

In her second feature film Black Milk (2020), Borchu describes the reunion of two sisters in Mongolia. After many years, the Mongolian (Uisenma Borchu), who grew up in Germany, comes back to her old home. The sisters find that they are both outsiders in their worlds and that they can free themselves from the opinions of others in an act of female self-determination.

Filmography

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uisenma Borchu, German-Mongolian filmmaker: comes from a nomad family . ( Memento from October 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Bayerischer Rundfunk , June 25, 2015, accessed on June 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ Film info: Donne-moi plus. German Films, accessed on June 15, 2016 .
  3. ↑ DOK.blog: Where is Stefania Bona anyway? DOK.fest Munich , accessed on June 15, 2016 .
  4. ^ The winners of the 36th Duisburg Film Week. Duisburg Film Week, accessed on June 5, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Nachum Mochiach: Festival Reports: 33rd Filmfest Munich: Women Under Influence. FIPRESCI , accessed June 5, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Werner Schauer, Triptychon Corporate Communications GmbH for German Films, Munich: German Films Quarterly 2 2016 DO NOT LOOK AT ME THAT. In: www.germanfilmsquarterly.de. Retrieved June 5, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Prices:. In: Film Art Days Saxony-Anhalt. Retrieved June 5, 2016 .
  8. ^ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Bavarian Film Prize 2015: All winners | BR.de. In: www.br.de. January 16, 2015, accessed June 5, 2016 (German).
  9. ↑ 2016 Taipei Film Festival | Films | Grand Prize International New Talent Competition | Don't Look at Me That Way. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 7, 2016 ; Retrieved July 7, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Interfilm Academy Munich. Retrieved November 20, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Kammerspiele Munich : NIGHT WHEN THE SUN SHINED FOR ME. Retrieved September 21, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Journey into one's own past. Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Carolin Weidner: Director on racism and arrogance: "The power is there" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 25, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on February 25, 2020]).
Mongolian name: As is customary in Mongolia, in this article the patronymic is in the genitive case before the proper name. So Uisenma (Uisenmaagiin) is the patronymic , Borchu (Borchüü) the proper name. The person is addressed with their proper name.
personal data
SURNAME Borchu, Uisenma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borchüü, Uisenmaagiin; Борхүү, Үйзэнмаагийн (MnS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mongolian-German director and actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulaanbaatar