SYNOSPIS
Ahmet, a champion boxer with Turkish roots and a professional soldier in the Austrian Army, starts taking acting lessons.
On stage he is suddenly confronted with his own internal battles.
• Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award
• First Steps Award - Nomination, Berlin
• Best Sounddesign - Diagonale - Festival of Austrian
Film
• Final Touch Award - Bolzano
IFF
• Award of the Austrian Film Institute for Best Upcoming Director
• Winner National Competition - This Human World * International Human Rights Film Festival
• Honorable Mention - SANFICI
• DOK. Edit Award - Nomination, Munich
FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS
(SELECTION)
• Visions du Réel - Nyon
• Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film
• Biografilm - International Celebration of Lives
• Frameout Open Air Cinema - MuseumsQuartier Vienna (Opening Film)
• Sarajevo Film Festival
• Filmfestival
Kitzbühel
• FIDBA - International Documentary Film Festival Buenos Aires
• This Human World - International Human Rights Film Festival
• SANFICI- Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente
• Bolzano IFF
• Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
• ZagrebDox
• Julien Dubuque IFF
• Uruguay International Film Festival
• Europe on Screen Indonesia
• Beldocs
• DOK.fest Munich
FACTS
DOCUMENTARY / 2021
STARRING: Ahmet Simsek, Margot Vuga, Andreas Simma, Adriana Salles, etc.
DIRECTOR:Jannis Lenz
CONCEPT: Jannis Lenz
PRODUCERS: David Bohun,Lixi Frank
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Panama Film
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Jakob Fuhr
SOUND RECORDING: Benedikt Palier
SOUND DESIGN & MUSIC: Benedikt Palier
EDITORS: Jannis Lenz, Roland Stöttinger, Nooran Talebi
COLOR GRADING: Lee Niederkofler, Vienna fx
DRAMATIC ADVISOR: Tizza Covi
RUNNING TIME: 76min.
SHOOTING FORMAT: HD
SCREENING FORMAT: DCP 2k
ASPECT RATIO: 1:1,85
SOUND: Dolby Digital 5.1