FOR THE TIME BEING
Nele Dehnenkamp | Germany 2023 | 90 min. | English with English subtitles
SATURDAY, 18.05. | 7 pm
Kino De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
Austrian premiere
High time to go shopping, because it’s that time again: for one weekend, Michelle is allowed to visit Jermaine in prison. In 2007, they got married in the visitor zone. Over the course of almost a decade, Nele Dehnenkamp filmed Michelle’s countless visits to her lawyer’s office, her appearances at solidarity events for wrongly convicted African-Americans, and her time-limited phone calls from prison. As she struggles to prove his innocence, new documents emerge that cast doubt on his previous testimony.
FOR THE TIME BEING is an intimate long-term observation of love, devotion and female resilience that reveals the ongoing structural racism of the ailing US justice system
Director: Nele Dehnenkamp
Cinematography: Nele Dehnenkamp
Editing: Nele Dehnenkamp
Sound: Nele Dehnenkamp, Stefan Zierock
Production: Nele Dehnenkamp, Christine Duttlinger, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm, Deutschland, Gedanken-Aufschluss Preis
One World – International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Tschechien
Filmfest Bremen, Deutschland
achtung Berlin, Deutschland
BIOGRAPHY
Nele Dehnenkamp is a German non-fiction director of films and radio documentaries. She studied social sciences in Berlin and New York City and holds a diploma in documentary directing from the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Her mostly observational works explore the multi-layered experiences of dream and trauma, often from the perspective of women. Her films have screened at internationally renowned festivals such as IDFA, DOK Leipzig and Palm Springs, and have won multiple awards, including the Grimme Prize and the IDA David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award. Her most recent short film “Seahorse” qualified for the 2022 Academy Awards. “For the Time Being” is her feature debut.
