Milan Carl Bath
THIRD PLACE (2019 / 20 min / Germany) currently streaming on: www.queerbee.org
Runner KIM (18) is on the brink of qualifiying for an international competition when her sponors demand she take a test to verify her gender. The doubt cast on her biological sex throws the teenager in an identity crisis and growing social isolation.
Third Place is a coming-of-age film that reflects on the role and impact of gender norms.
FESTIVALS & AWARDS (Selection)
Best Student Shortfilm // Sardinia Queer Film Festival 2019 // Italy
Mumbai Queer Film Festival 2019 // India
Korea Queer Film Festival 2019 // Koria
Querbee Film Festival 2019 // USA
La Frontera QFF // USA
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DIE ABREISE / THE DEPARTURE
Director / Writer / Producer
DIE ABREISE (2018 / 15 min / Germany) currently streaming on: www.chaiflicks.com
A woman prepares to leave her flat. She seems to be following a strict plan as she, step by step, readies herself and her home for departure. The Departure reflects on the correlation of technocratic rationality and the Holocaust.
FESTIVALS & AWARDS (Selection)
39.Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis //Germany Hongkong Jewish FF 2018// Hongkong
Heartlands Film Indy Shorts 2018 // USA Audience Award // Catacumba FF 2018 // Spain
Go Short Nijmegen 2018 // Netherlands Moscow Jewish Filmfestival 2018// Russia
Best Short // Sanford Int.SFF 2018 // USA Best Short // San Diego Jewish FF 2018 // USA
Best Short // San Diego Jewish FF 2018 // USA Sonderpreis // KFF Göttingen 2018 // Germany
Best Directing // FICEE 2018 // Spain Best Int. Short // Australia Independent FF 2018
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FRANKLY (Work in Progress)
Director / Writer / Editing
FRANKLY (2018 - today / 30 min / Germany)
A day in the life of Frank - a life lived on his terms that puts him at odds with the law and his own physical boundaries.
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DER PRÄPERATOR / THE TAXIDERMIST
Director / Writer / Producer
GRAB AND RUN
Director Assistant/ 2nd Camera / Sound
DER PRÄPERATOR / THE TAXIDERMIST (2018 / 30 min / Germany)
mit Julian Withalm
K. is an enthusiastic taxidermist with more than 7000 frozen animal skins in his basement. He works at night in his small workshop shaping them into sculptures to the incessant sound of the TV broadcasting from a flatscreen next to him. Often taking influence from the programs he watches, his constant comments reveal a psyche and worldview shaped by xenophobia.
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THE CARTOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE
with Roser Corella /Sound
GRAB AND RUN (2017 / 89 min / Kyrgyztan)
Director: Roser Corella // www.rosercorella.com
Since Kyrgyzstan gained its Independence in 1991, there has been a revival of the ancient practice of Ala-Kachuu, which translates roughly as “grab and run”. More than half Kyrgyz women are married after being kidnapped by the men who become their husbands. Some escape after violent ordeals, but most are persuaded to stay by tradition and fear of scandal.
FESTIVALS & AWARDS (Selection)
Best Feature Documentary // Toronto Arthouse Film Festival Festival 2018
Best International Documentary // DocLA, Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival 2017
Best film "A different tomorrow section" // Reykjavik Film Festival 2017
Best Documentary film on Women’s Rights “Biznaga Award” // Festival de Málaga 2018
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THE CARTOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE (2018 / 25 min / Georgia)
in Cooperation with Roser Corella // www.rosercorella.com
Following conflict between Georgia and Abkhazia in the early 1990s, around 200,000 ethnic Georgian and Abkhazians left their homes. The majority of these internally displaced persons (IDPs) now reside within Georgia in former public administration buildings that were never intended for residential use.
Only a small part of the former Cartographic Institute of Gldani built during the 1970s retains its original use, now 102 IDPs families from Abkhazia call the rest of it home. The inhabitant Tamta spent her whole childhood here and can recall how the hallway would flood whenever it rained through the leaking, damaged roof. She and the other children saw this as an opportunity and turned the flooded hallway into a playground.
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ROOM WITHOUT A VIEW
Director Assistant
Room without a view (2021 / 76 min / Lebanon/Bangladesh)
Director Roser Corella // www.rosercorella.com
The film chronicles the dire reality of foreign domestic workers in Lebanon. By combining a multitude of perspectives, it offers intimate insights into the private lives of employers, agents and maids. Exposing modern forms of slavery, it also reflects on the role of women and domestic work at large in capitalist societies.
Festivals: a.o.
HotDocs 2021
CPH:DOX Copenhagen 2021
Thessanoliki Documentary Filmfestival 2021
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THIRD PLACE
Director / Writer / Producer
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