FAMILIENLEBEN
Rosa Hannah Ziegler | Germany 2018 | 97 Min. | OmeU
Austrian Premiere
Biggi and Alfred used to be a couple, but life is tough without a job and so both ended up living together on their small farm in Saxony-Anhalt (East Germany). Biggis Daughters Denise (17) and Saskia (14) try to find their own path, in spite of all problems at school and in their family. While the adults can only dream of renovating their run-down farm and rebuild it into a wild west village or stud for breeding horses. Without any one in sight to help them with their money issues.
Family Life shows the vulnerability and brokenness of a family at the edge of society, without being too voyeuristic or intrusive.
Director: Rosa Hannah Ziegler
Camera and Sound: Matteo Cocco, Clemens Endress
Editing: Rosa Hannah Ziegler, Gerhard Ziegler
Producer: Roswitha Ziegler
Awards
15th NEISSE FILMFESTIVAL (Official Selection, Neiße, Germany), BEST DOCUMENTARY; GERMAN DOCUMENTARY FILM AWARD 2018 (Official Selection, Stuttgart, Germany), NOMINATED; 15th SARATOV SUFFERINGS FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Saratov, Russia), 2nd PRIZE; 4th BANGIFF BANGKOKTHAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Bangkok, Thailand), BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM; 12th INTERNATIONAL EAST SARAJEVO FILM FEST (Official Selection, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), THE GATE OF ZVORNIK – BEST DIRECTION
Screenings
68th BERLINALE – INT’L FILM FESTIVAL BERLIN (Panorama, Berlin, Germany); 15th DOKUMENTARFILMWOCHE HAMBURG (Official Selection, Germany), FRAMES OF REPRESENTATION 2018 AT INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS (Landscape Program, ICA London, UK); 28th FILMKUNSTFEST MV (Official Selection, Schwerin, Germany); 2nd FESTIVAL DE CINE DE PORTOVIEJO (Official Selection, Portoviejo, Ecuador); 3rd SACRAMENTO UNDERGROUND FILM & ARTS FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Sacramento, CA, USA); 23rd SPLIT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Split, Croatia);22nd GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Singapore); 5th SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL NEW CONCEPT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, San Bruno, CA; 4th BAHIA INDEPENDENT CINEMA FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Bahia, Brazil); 42th DUISBURGER FILMWOCHE (Official Selection, Duisburg, Germany); 8th AESTHETICA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, York, United Kingdom)
Biography
Born in Hamburg, Germany in 1982, she studied directing at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. She won the German Short Film Award in Gold for her documentary Cigaretta mon amour – Portrait meines Vaters (2006). She followed this with multi- award-winning short films Escape (2011) and A Girl’s Day (2014) which both screened at numerous international festivals. In 2017 she made the television film “Du warst mein Leben”, which has won a Grimme Award. Familienleben is her first feature-length documentary.
