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Completed - GERMAN, ENGLISH, SWAHILI - Drama - 90 minutes

Log Line

The transformation of a strong woman torn from her contentend world during a sailing trip.

Year of production : 2018

Director(s) : Wolfgang FISCHER
Writer(s) : Wolfgang FISCHER, Ika KÜNZEL
Cast : Susanne WOLFF, Gedion Wekesa ODUOR, Kelvin Mutuku NDINDA

Producer(s) : Marcos KANTIS (SCHIWAGO FILM), Martin LEHWALD (SCHIWAGO FILM), Michal POKORNY (SCHIWAGO FILM), Alexander DUMREICHER-IVANCEANU (AMOUR FOU VIENNA), Bady MINCK (AMOUR FOU VIENNA)

Synopsis

The transformation of a strong woman torn from her contentend world during a sailing trip.

Rike - mid-30s, a doctor from Europe - embodies a typically Western model of happiness and success. She is educated, confident, determined and committed. We see Rike‘s everyday life, as an overworked emergency doctor, before she sets out on a much-needed holiday on Gibraltar. There she fulfils a long-held dream and sails out to sea alone in her sailing boat. Her goal: Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. But her dream holiday is quickly broken off on the high seas, when, after a storm, she finds herself near a stricken refugee boat. Unless she intervenes, around a hundred people will drown – their utterly overloaded boat has sprung a leak. Rike follows maritime law and radios for help - legally, she is not obliged to do any more. But when her calls are left unanswered, and then rejected for spurious reasons, she decides to overcome her fear and try to rescue whoever she can.

Production

Country(ies) : GERMANY, AUSTRIA

Financing plan : Filmstiftung NRW
Austrian Film Institute
DFFF
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Malta Film Commission
BKM
FFA
Eurimages
WDR
ARTE

AUSTRIA Nov 23, 2018 FILMLADEN GMBH
BELGIUM IMAGINE FILM DI
BELGIUM Apr 23, 2019 UNIVERSCINE BEL
FRANCE Mar 27, 2019 SOPHIE DULAC DI
GREECE VIDEORAMA FILMS
HUNGARY CINEFIL CO LTD.
ITALY Nov 15, 2018 CINECLUB INTERN
NETHERLAND IMAGINE FILM DI
UNITED KIN Apr 26, 2019 606 DISTRIBUTIO
USA Feb 27, 2019 FILM MOVEMENT
USA Feb 27, 2019 FILM FORUM

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Festivals and Awards

Berlinale - EFM 2018 (Heiner-Carow-Prize)
Berlinale - EFM 2018 (Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Panorama Section))
Berlinale - EFM 2018 (Europe Cinemas Label Prize)
Berlinale - EFM 2018 (2. Platz beim Publikumspreis)


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