Philip, aged 13, returns home, as if nothing had happened, after missing for a week. The boy’s disappearance had plunged his family as well as local society into morbid anxiety, but, paradoxically enough, it is his reappearance that will detonate a state of existential despair. A philosophical essay on modern-times alienation, blended with spices of offbeat humor, in which bodies, words and relationships wander purposelessly about, as if stunned by life and emotions. An enigmatic portrait of a family in crisis, dusted with non-linear opacity and set against a stunning backdrop of crispy autumn light.
I Was at Home, But
Ich war zuhause, aber
60th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
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- Direction: Angela Schanelec
- Script: Angela Schanelec
- Cinematography: Ivan Marković
- Editing: Angela Schanelec
- Sound: Andreas Mücke-Niesytka, Rainer Gerlach
- Actors: Maren Eggert, Jakob Lassalle, Clara Möller, Franz Rogowski, Lilith Stangenberg, Alan Williams, Jirka Zett, Dane Komljen
- Production: Nachmittagfilm Angela Schanelec, Darjilm
- Producers: Angela Schanelec
- Co-production: Dart film & video doo
- Co-producers: Vladimir Vidic
- Costumes: Birgitt Kilian
- Sets: Reinhild Blaschke
- Make Up: Monika Münnich
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Germany, Serbia
- Production Year: 2019
- Duration: 105´
- Contact: Deutsche Kinemathek, filmverleih@deutsche-kinemathek.de
- Awards/Distinctions: Silver Berlin Bear for Best Director – Berlin IFF 2019
Angela Schanelec
German actress, film director, and screenwriter Angela Schanelec studied Acting in Frankfurt, as well as Directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. She currently works as a professor at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Her film Places in Cities was screened at the Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, while her latest feature I Was at Home, But… won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlinale.
Filmography
1991 Schöne gelbe Farbe (short)
1998 Plätze in Städten | Places in Cities
2001 Mein langsames Leben | Passing Summer
2004 Marseille
2007 Nachmittag | Afternoon
2010 Orly
2014 Ponts de Sarajevo | Bridges of Sarajevo
2016 Der traumhafte Weg | The Dreamed Path
2019 Ich war zuhause, aber | I Was at Home, But
