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    Wanja

    Carolina HELLSGÅRD 2015 Germany Fiction color 87min German DCP
    The former bank robber Wanja is released from a long prison sentence. As her feelings of loneliness escalate, Wanja sets out to find work and hereby a new identity. Against all odds she lands an internship at a horse race track. In the stable she gets to know the troubled teenager Emma, and a strong friendship develops between the two women. When Emma slips deeper into her own drug abuse, Wanja decides to rescue her. Wanja is a portrait of people who have never had anything in life, and hardly exist in society, other than as numbers in criminal statistics reports.

    Director

    Carolina HELLSGÅRD

    HELLSGÅRD works as a scriptwriter, editor and director in Stockholm and Berlin. After completing a MFA from the Berlin University of Arts, she received a DAAD-postgraduate grant for Los Angeles, where she studied film directing and screenwriting at the California Institute of the Arts. Her award-winning films have been screened in numerous international film festivals including the Berlinale, Gothenburg, Clermont Ferrand IFF, and Oberhausen Short Film Festival. Wanja is her debut feature film and was nominated for Berlinale Best First Feature Award in 2015.

    Director's Statement ▾

    Carolina HELLSGÅRD
    • 2015《不鞍於世》Wanja
    • 2013 Runner
    • 2009 Hunger
    • 2008 Karaoke

    Director & Screenwriter/ Carolina HELLSGÅRD
    Producer/ Johanna AUST
    Cinematographer/ Kathrin KROTTENTHALER
    Editor/ Carolina HELLSGÅRD, Antonella SARUBBI
    Sound/ Christian OBERMAIER
    Cast/ Anne Ratte-POLLE, Nele TREBS

    Flickfilm GbR
    Carolina HELLSGÅRD
    carolina@hellsgard.com

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