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The exground youth days once more bring an exclusive selection of
international productions especially for twelve- to 18-year-old
film-fans to Wiesbaden. The youth days will be opened with the 8th
Wiesbaden Youth Film Competition, where local talent competes for EUR
450 prize money. The 9th youth days – International Youth Film
Competition this year presents productions from Belgium, Germany, Italy,
the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the USA – in the center of
which, with one exception, are joy and sorrow of female teenagers.
We start with 13-year old Johanna in the German production FORTRESS
[FESTUNG], who is desperately searching for a way out of the vicious
cycle of violence in her family. Will she manage to finally break
through the silence and find her way to becoming a self-determined young
woman? We continue turbulent with young Alma from Norway in TURN ME ON,
GODDAMMIT, who is battling with her hormonal rushes as well as her bad
reputation. In her blooming fantasy the borders between reality and
imagination blur over and over again. Much further West devout mormon
Rachel in ELECTRICK CHILDREN believes to have been impregnated just by
listening to a music cassette and together with her brother escapes to
the US hotbed of sin Las Vegas. In contrast, Dutch LENA is fighting her
overweight. When unexpectedly she experiences her first love and head
over heels moves in with her boyfriend and his strange father, she can’t
sense that she’s heading for disaster… The adolescence of the
protagonist in FÜR ELISE (played by Wiesbaden-born Jasna Fritzi Bauer!)
is no walk in the park: Elise has to manage everyday life for her mother
suffering from alcohol abuse and doesn’t know what to do, when her
mother’s new boyfriend is obviously more interested in her. Greta in the
US roadmovie ARCADIA doesn’t grow up in an intact family either – which
she only slowly starts to realize during their moving with her father
and her siblings all across the country. Another role switch between
mother and daughter offers FLYING FISH [FLIEGENDE FISCHE MÜSSEN INS
MEER]: in this German-Swiss comedy 16-year old Nana earns the living,
while her single mother slithers from one chaotic love story to the
next. High time for the children to go looking for a suitable partner
for their mother. For the completion of "youth days – International
Youth Film Competition" we find ourselves on a Tuscany campsite: in
SUMMER GAMES, which Switzerland entered for the Oscar for Best
Foreign-Language Film this year, all could be summerly relaxed for
twelve-year old Nic, if not for his father’s outbursts of violence,
which the whole family suffers from very much. With so many high-class
films the race for the youth jury’s preference is highly thrilling.
Film overview:
ARCADIA
by Olivia Silver
USA 2012 Blu-ray 90 min. OV
ELECTRICK CHILDREN
by Rebecca Thomas
USA 2012 HDCam 96 min. OV
FESTUNG
by Kirsi Marie Liimatainen
Germany 2011 Blu-ray 88 min. OV Engl. ST
FLYING FISH [FLIEGENDE FISCHE MÜSSEN INS MEER]
by Güzin Kar
Switzerland/Germany 2011 35 mm 84 min. Germ. OV
FÜR ELISE
by Wolfgang Dinslage
Germany 2012 35 mm 94 min. OV
LENA
by Christophe Van Rompaey
The Netherlands/Belgium 2011 35 mm 119 min. Dutch.-Pol. OV Engl. ST
SUMMER GAMES [GIOCHI D’ESTATE]
by Rolando Colla
Switzerland/Italy 2011 35 mm 101 min. Ital. OV Germ.-French ST
TURN ME ON, GODDAMMIT [FÅ MEG PÅ, FOR FAEN]
by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen
Norway 2011 Blu-ray 76 min. OV Germ. ST
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