EAVE project IN THE ARMS OF MORPHEUS to start shooting
In Production April 2016
- EAVE project IN THE ARMS OF MORPHEUS by Marc Schmidt, producer: EAVE graduate Janneke Doolaard is about to start shooting. The film is a tribute to the uncontrollable, irrational and insanely elements of our existence, in the form of a cinematic immersion in the waves of sleep. IN THE ARMS OF MORPHEUS seeks a cinematografic experience, a film to undergo, analogous to the inevitability of sleep, showing the awake world refined at the end of the film. MORPHEUS is a co-production with KRO-NCRV and production company A-directors. With the contribution of VAF (Flemish Audiovisual Fund) for IN THE ARMS OF MORPHEUS, Marc Schmidt can start with the realization. Previously the Dutch Cultural Media Fund, The Netherlands Film Fund, The Netherlands Film Production Incentive and CoBO-Fund awarded financial support to IN THE ARMS OF MORPHEUS.
- COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD by Mads Brügger, producer: EAVE graduate Bjarte Mørner Tveit is in production. The United Nations’ Swedish Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld was killed when his plane crashed in then Northern Rhodesia in 1961. But was it an accident or an assassination – and if it was murder, who could be behind it? 55 years after the event, Danish journalist, TV host and documentary filmmaker Mads Brügger will try to find the answers in a €1.2 million true-crime feature, where he examines the case with a private investigator. Denmark’s Wingman Media (Peter Engel) will stage the project, with Norway’s Bjarte Mørner Tveit (of Piraya Film) as co-producer, and the film is one of four foreign co-productions that the Norwegian Film Institute has decided to support with a total of €1 million.
- AUF WIEDERSEHEN DEUTSCHLAND by Sam Garbarski, producers: EAVE graduate and EAVE Head of Studies Jani Thiltges, EAVE graduate Sebastien Delloye is shooting. In his film, the director looks at the peculiar fate of some exiled German Jews who decide to stay in Germany after the war. Auf Wiedersehen Deutschland begins in Frankfurt in 1946 and follows David Behrmann and his six friends in transit in a displaced persons’ camp, with just one end goal: America! But to emigrate, you need money – lots of money. Of course, it takes motivation to make money. Weaving a web of incredible tales, they go door-to-door selling household linen to Germans. But while their business is flourishing, David’s dark past catches up with him. Filming will take place in Luxembourg until the end of April, then in Germany, where it should wrap in May. The film is being produced by Luxembourg's Samsa Film and Belgium's Entre Chien et Loup, with IGC Films as co-production partners in Germany, as well as RTBF and BeTV domestically. It has received support from the CCA, Bruxellimage, the Luxembourg Film Fund, the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, the Medienboard Film Fund, the Hamburg Film Fund and Eurimages.
- MAGICAL MYSTERY by Arne Feldhusen, producer: EAVE graduate Veroa Meier is in production. In Hamburg, principal photography has started on the road movie, which follows a group of techno musicians who are touring Germany in the mid-1990s. The story is based on the novel of the same name by German writer Sven Regener. The musician and co-founder of the German band Element of Crime also wrote the script. Produced by Berlin-based Razor Film in co-production with the Brainpool brand MySpass, WDR, Degeto and Arte, the shoot is taking place on location in Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Berlin and Bavaria. Magical Mystery has received support from the German Federal Film Fund, the FFA, the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, the Filmförderung Hamburg-Schleswig-Holstein as well as the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung.
- AMAR by Esteban Crespo, producer: EAVE graduate Maria Zamora starts shooting. With a screenplay written by Esteban Crespo himself, Amar “will be a movie about intense emotions, in which the viewer’s gaze will be focused on the two main characters, reflecting a world of contradictions that are so typical of youth”, in his own words. The synopsis introduces us to Laura and Carlos, who love each other as if each day were their last – but perhaps this intense passion of a first love will be what lies behind their separation one year later. Funding comes from TVE, Amar AIE Filmeu and Netflix.
- THE WOUND by John Trengove, producer: EAVE graduate Elias Ribeiro is shooting. Kwanda, a gay teenager from the city arrives at the rural settlement of his father’s origin to be circumcised in a traditional rites-of-passage into manhood. A dangerous situation develops when Kwanda threatens to expose a closeted relationship between two rural men. The film is supported by Hubert Bals Fund, Torino Film Lab, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Arte, Les cinémas du monde, Berlinale Talents and Durban FilmMart.
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Page published 20 April 2016.
