Somewhere in Tonga
SCREENING:
23rd May 20:15 Anteo Palazzo del Cinema
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Best Supporting Performance Male
COUNTRY:
Germania
RUNTIME:
98 min
SYNOPSIS:
There is nothing that keeps passionate social worker Wolski in Germany. On an uninhabited island in the Kingdom of Tonga he wants to give criminal teenagers a second chance. His first candidate is Marcel, 16, and no stranger to drugs, violence and crime. So a visit to the main island ends in disaster. Wolski only narrowly manages to keep the boy from being send to prison. The deal: From now on, Marcel is not allowed to leave the remote island at all. Based on a true story and shot mainly with novice actors, it is Tonga's first narrative feature film.
CAST:
Sascha Alexander Geršak, Luis Pintsch, Mira Partecke, Wolfgang Zechmayer, Fuahea Semi, Lolohea Lin, Tevita Fukofuka, Abbas Piu.
TROUPE:
Screenplay: Sarah Schill
Producer: Volker Heise, Thomas Kufus
Director: Florian Schewe
Casting: Britt Beyer
Director of Photography: Yannick Bonica
Editor: Till Ufer
Sound: Manja Ebert
Sound design: Dominik Avenwedde
Score: Daniel Dickmeis
Wardrobe: Suni Hoffmann
NOMINATION:
Best Supporting Performance Male