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Grief
Germany, 17min, 2004

Director: Daniel Lang

Buch: Annette von der Mulbe
Camera: Johannes Wiedermann
Producer: Anna Wendt
Sound: Yannik Herrmannsdorfer
Sound-design: Marcus Huber
Composer: Tilman Ritter
Editor: Robert Hentschel

Synopsis: On a rainy night a battered taxi drifts through the streets of Berlin. Iona, a Russian immigrant, is behind the wheel. His son Sasha had financed the family by driving the taxi until his sudden death. Now Iona tries his best as a blundering taxi driver. But what he really wants is to find someone to talk to about his son’s death.

Daniel Lang
1977, Bavaria

Lived in Australia from 1986-1989. A-Levels in 1997. Graduated from the University of Reading, England with Honours, BA Film and Drama, 2001. Since 2001 on the directing course at the Film and Television School „Konrad Wolf“ in Potsdam-Babelsberg.

Filmography

2000 Stigma (miniDV)
2001 If I Speak About It Today (miniDV)
2002 Describing Time (16mm)
Festivaltrailer Filmfestival Cottbus (35mm)
2003 I am a Traditionalist – Sepp Maier (16mm)

Quotation

from the jury session of the third international student short film festival, Sep 18 th – Sep 25 th 2005, Balchik

...today, 25.09.2005, the jury of the III international student sort film festival with chairman Stanimir Trifonof – Bulgaria and members: Sigal Mordechai – Israel, Simon Ellis – UK, Rostislava Gencheva – Bulgaria, Tsvetomira Nikolova – Bulgaria unaimously awarded the following films:

For the nostalgy, the losses, the loneliness, the longing and the warmth shown, the Grand Prix of the III International Student Short Film Festival is awarded to the feature film:

“GRIEF”...

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