Where I am is up
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| Original title | Where I am is up |
| Country of production |
 Germany
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| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 18 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bettina Schoeller |
| camera | Bettina Schoeller |
| cut | Bettina Schoeller |
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Where I Am Is Above is a German short documentary film by Bettina Schoeller .
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The film portrays a grandmother on her way from the bedroom at home to sunny Gran Canaria. On the way with her daughter and granddaughter and filmmaker, the sprightly woman fights her way through a vacation and fruit paradise. The film shows different sides of her personality; Joie de vivre, age wisdom and farmer's slyness are paired with the upbringing standards typical of this generation of the 1910s and 1920s. An authoritarian Protestant upbringing like in the film The White Ribbon determines not only the life of the grandmother, but also that of her daughter and also influences the granddaughter. An irrepressible will to live breaks through, but it also has another side: just don't show any weakness, never give up, because: where I am is up .
Reviews
" Where I am is upstairs" gives an insight into the life of a self-centered old woman. [...] Or, as the old lady, the grandmother of the director Bettina Schöller, puts it in “Where I am is upstairs”: In the end everyone is alone." (Maris Hubschmid)
Performances and awards
- Berlinale Shorts Competition 2010
- International Film Festival of direct cinema, Moscow, 2010
- Vienna Independent Shorts 2010
- German Shorts in Cannes, 2010
- International Short Film Festival Hamburg , 2010
- Berlin short film role, open air, 2010
- Bonn short film role, open air, 2010
- Festival Silhouette de Paris, 2010
- Documentary Film Award Bamberg Rider 2011
Web links
- Where I am is upstairs , Berlinale Shorts Competition 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maris Hubschmid: Berlinale: Where I am is above , Der Tagesspiegel , February 16, 2010
- ↑ 21st Bamberg Short Film Festival ends with a record number of visitors ( memento of the original from July 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bamberg Short Film Festival , review 2011
