Documentary Short
27'
Director
Kristina Schranz
Co-Director
Caroline Spreitzenbart
Canon C300 MK I
lensed with
Canon Cinema Primes
In stoic shots we frame the stagnation of the once bustling border town Spielfeld (ger.: playground), which now seems to serve as a political playground for the suppression of European migration rules. By visualising terms like "vanishing point" or "border" in our observational shots – terms used by the media to describe the so-called "refugee crisis of 2015” – we subtly make the past events feel present.
AWARDS
Best Short Documentary Award Diagonale
Carte-Blanche Young Talent Award at Duisburg Film Week
Main prize special category "Home" at flimmern&rauschen
Qualified for “Best Short Film” at Austrian Film Award
Photo Credit: Diagonale/Miriam Raneburger
Carte-Blanche Young Talent Award at Duisburg Film Week
Main prize special category "Home" at flimmern&rauschen
Qualified for “Best Short Film” at Austrian Film Award
Photo Credit: Diagonale/Miriam Raneburger
When hundreds of thousands of refugees passed through Spielfeld on the Austrian-Slovenian border in the winter of 2015, the place became a symbol of the political overload of the refugee and solidarity crisis. No refugees have arrived here since the Balkan route was closed – what remains is a patchy fence, empty tents and a still unused “border management system”.
Synopsis
Festivals
2016, IDFA Film Academy Day, Film Academy, Amsterdam – Prescreening
2016, Wagner College, New York – Prescreening
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2017, Diagonale, Graz – Worldpremiere
2017, Landshut Short Film Festival – German Premiere
2017, It’s All True – Film Festival, São Paulo/Rio de Janeiro
2017, Krakow Film Festival, Kraków
2017, International Film Festival Kino Otok, Ljubljana
2017, Euganea Film Festival, Padova
2017, PriFest, Kosovo
2017, dotdotdot Open Air Short Film Festival, Vienna
2017, XXXI Pärnu Film Festival, Pärnu
2017, Five Lakes Film Festival, Starnberg
2017, The New Heimatfilm, Freistadt
2017, Duisburg Film Week, Duisburg
2017, Über Kurz und Lang, Murnau
2017, Burgenländische Kunst, OHO, Oberwart
2017, Goethe Institute, Cape Town
2017, Dieselkino, Burgenland Premiere, Oberwart
2017, 50th Anniversary HFF Munich, Pinakothek Munich
2018, FIPA, Biarritz
2018, flimmern&rauschen, Munich
2018, Open House Day, HFF Munich
2018, Austrian Short Film Showcase - Opening, mumok, Vienna
2018, Austrian Short Film Showcase, in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs and the Academy of Austrian Film, Embassies/Cultural Institutes/Consulates General
Awards
2017, Best short documentary film – Diagonale
2017, Young Talent Carte-Blanche – Duisburg Film Week
2018, Main prize special category "Home" –flimmern&rauschen
2018, Qualified for Best Short Film – Austrian Film Award
2016, IDFA Film Academy Day, Film Academy, Amsterdam – Prescreening
2016, Wagner College, New York – Prescreening
*
2017, Diagonale, Graz – Worldpremiere
2017, Landshut Short Film Festival – German Premiere
2017, It’s All True – Film Festival, São Paulo/Rio de Janeiro
2017, Krakow Film Festival, Kraków
2017, International Film Festival Kino Otok, Ljubljana
2017, Euganea Film Festival, Padova
2017, PriFest, Kosovo
2017, dotdotdot Open Air Short Film Festival, Vienna
2017, XXXI Pärnu Film Festival, Pärnu
2017, Five Lakes Film Festival, Starnberg
2017, The New Heimatfilm, Freistadt
2017, Duisburg Film Week, Duisburg
2017, Über Kurz und Lang, Murnau
2017, Burgenländische Kunst, OHO, Oberwart
2017, Goethe Institute, Cape Town
2017, Dieselkino, Burgenland Premiere, Oberwart
2017, 50th Anniversary HFF Munich, Pinakothek Munich
2018, FIPA, Biarritz
2018, flimmern&rauschen, Munich
2018, Open House Day, HFF Munich
2018, Austrian Short Film Showcase - Opening, mumok, Vienna
2018, Austrian Short Film Showcase, in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs and the Academy of Austrian Film, Embassies/Cultural Institutes/Consulates General
Awards
2017, Best short documentary film – Diagonale
2017, Young Talent Carte-Blanche – Duisburg Film Week
2018, Main prize special category "Home" –flimmern&rauschen
2018, Qualified for Best Short Film – Austrian Film Award
Credits
Director and Writer Kristina Schranz
Co-Writer Carina Bethmann
Director of Photography and Co-Director Caroline Spreitzenbart
Sound Marie Freund, Kristina Schranz, Julia Weidner, Carina Bethmann
Title and Poster Design Ismaël Sanou
Creative Producer Marie Freund
A production by Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München.
Director and Writer Kristina Schranz
Co-Writer Carina Bethmann
Director of Photography and Co-Director Caroline Spreitzenbart
Sound Marie Freund, Kristina Schranz, Julia Weidner, Carina Bethmann
Title and Poster Design Ismaël Sanou
Creative Producer Marie Freund
A production by Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München.