Country: Germany
Year: 2016
Duration: 93'


On 14th September 2012 at 2:56 pm, the cruise liner Adventure of the Seas reports to the Spanish Maritime Rescue Centre the sighting of a dinghy adrift with thirteen persons on board. From a YouTube clip and biographical tales evolve a choreography reflecting the past, present and future of the voyagers on the Mediterranean. [mp]

Biography

film director

Philip Scheffner

Philip Scheffner (Homburg, Germany, 1966) lives and works as an artist and director in Berlin. Along with Merle Kröger, Alex Gerbaulet and Caroline Kirberg, he runs the production platform pong. Several of his works have screened at the Berlin Film Festival; in particular, he presented the documentaries The Halfmoon Files (2007), which won Best Documentary at the Festival di Mar del Plata and the Prix des mediathèques at FIDMarseille; Day of the Sparrow (2010); and Revision (2012). In 2016, he made his another documentary, And-Ek Ghes...

FILMOGRAFIA

A/C (doc., 2003), The Halfmoon Files (doc., 2007), Day of the Sparrow (doc., 2010), Revision (doc., 2012), And-Ek Ghes... (doc., 2016), Das Buch (Havarie, doc., 2016). 

Declaration

film director

“Yet since October 2014, both the political situation and the way what is happening in the Mediterranean Sea is being disseminated have worsened significantly. We note with grave concern that the images of people in boats risking their lives to secure a future for them and their families as a result of European border policy have become part of our everyday life today. We are resigned to seeing these images week after week on television. There is an increasingly feeling of helplessness, which is at best expressed along the lines of ‘We can’t do anything’ and at worst in the sort of fear that has led to arson attacks on refugee housing also being carried out on a weekly basis.”

Cast

& Credits

regia, montaggio/director, film editing
Philip Scheffner
soggetto/story
dall’omonimo romanzo di/from the novel of the same title by Merle Kröger
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Merle Kröger, Philip Scheffner
fotografia/cinematography
Terry Diamond, Bernd Meiners
suono/sound
Pascal Capitolin, Volker Zeigermann, Florian Marquardt
produttori/producers
Merle Kröger, Caroline Kirberg
produzione/production
pong
coproduttori/coproducers
Meike Martens, Marcie Jost, Peter Zorn
coproduzione/coproduction
Blinker Filmproduktion, worklights media production, ZDF


contatti/contacts
Pong Film
info@pong-berlin.de
www.pong-berlin.de
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