TAGE IN DER STADT | short fiction | GER 2012 | blowball film / khm | 27´ | 1:2,39 | red one 4k & zeiss hs

Out of prison, back to freedom and to a normal way of life: inmates often like to think of the day of their release as a big event, but being on the outside unleashes nothing but emptiness in 39-year-old Nina, for whom it seems nobody has been waiting. Nina is released after having served a long prison sentence. It’s time for her to find her place in the world. Her brother quickly helps her to find an apartment and even a job – badly paid – but nonetheless. Nina gets in touch with her now grown-up daughter, Anna, only to discover a complete stranger. Time has ridden roughshod over this woman; every step she takes, she finds herself up against the impenetrable rules of a new world that is as cold and disdainful as it is beautiful.

director: Janis Mazuch | producer: Julia Keller | production design: Claudia Mertens | costume design: Cindy Spiekermann | makeup artist: Jenny Zenz | gaffer: Felix Boegel | 1st AC: Lukas Raber & Jan-Malte Enning | 2nd AC: Lukas Taglieber | rental: Volker Rodde & Maier Bros Cologne

cast
Pascale Schiller | Maik Solbach | Juli Klement | Barbara Schwarz | Markus Kirschbaum

awards
*FBW - Prädikat wertvoll*

screenings
Berlinale 2012 - Perspektive Deutsches Kino
International Istanbul Shortfilm Festival 2012
Mediawave Festival Ungarn 2012
Unlimited Shortfilm Festival Cologne 2012