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BE MY BABY
by Christina Schiewe
Germany 2014 100 min. original version with English subtitles
sun 16 nov 8:00 pm Caligari FilmBühne
Script: Christina Schiewe, Petra Brix, DoP: Julia Baumann, Editor: Dorothee Bröckelmann, Production: Zum Goldenen Lamm, Produced by: Stefan Sporbert, Rüdiger Heinze, Cast: Carina Kühne, Christina Große, Holger Stockhaus, Gitta Schweighöfer, Florian Appelius, Paul Fassnacht, Cornelia Köndgen, Nico Randel
Nicole is 18 years old, wants to marry and have a baby, she simply wants to lead a normal life. Nicole loves young neighbor Nick, and despite him being an outsider, is giving him absolute affection. When Nicole becomes pregnant, everybody is tested to their limits. A race starts against sterilisation, abortion and gridlocked ideas about self-determination of a young woman with Down’s syndrome.
Biography: Christina Schiewe, born in 1980 in Brussels/Belgium to German-Brazilian parents, grew up in Brussels, Stockholm and Düsseldorf, 2002–2007 studied directing feature film at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. Her diploma film DAS LEICHTE LEBEN was nominated for "Special Award Acting" in the FIRST STEPS Awards in 2007 and won the award for Best Student Short Film at the Rome International Film Festival. BE MY BABY is her first feature-length film. She lives in Cologne.
Filmography (selected): 2001 DIE MUSIKPROBE, 2002 JOHN UND JESSI, 2003 VOLLMILCH, 2005 LENA (all shorts), 2007 DAS LEICHTE LEBEN, 2014 BE MY BABY
Awards: "Young German Cinema Award" for Best Script (Munich Film Festival, Germany 2014), Main Prize for Best Film (Ahrenshooper Filmnächte, Germany 2014)
Contact:
Zum Goldenen Lamm Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. KG
Alleenstraße 2
71638 Ludwigsburg
Germany
Phone: +49 (71 41) 9 56 51 55
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