The International Film Festival Mannheim Heidelberg is a platform for international newcomer films. In the competition for the Grand Newcomer Award, the great young talent award, the film of a young director from Heidelberg is also on the program this year. A real exclamation mark from director Laura Mahlberg with her film “Holding Positions”.
A life in transit and the question: “What if?”
“Holding Positions” by Laura Mahlberg is about people who wait at the airport, are in transit and then, according to the young director, “investigate the question: what if? So quite trivially said: I think you know the moment when you are in the airport and looks at the display boards and thinks: What if I bought a ticket now, went somewhere and started all over again? ”
Laura Mahlberg’s first feature film consists of four episodes in four different languages, Finnish, German, Mandarin and English. A feature film with documentary elements: “We observed a lot at the airport and we shot the staged scenes between normal travelers.
The last film festival Mannheim Heidelberg with director Michael Kötz
- Duration
- 3:42 min
- Broadcast date
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14/11/2019 - Airtime
- 6:00 a.m.
- Channel
- SWR2
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Slow narrative should make viewers themselves waiting
The 31-year-old from Heidelberg learned her craft at the private Merz Academy in Stuttgart, where she now lives. She has slowly but steadfastly approached filmmaking, but in between has also considered studying piano. The decision in favor of the film has long been made.
“Holding Positions” shows long standing long shots. The slow narrative style is intended to make the audience themselves waiting and observing. It is something special for Laura Mahlberg that this work is currently running in competition at the Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival.
68th International Film Festival Mannheim Heidelberg. From November 14th to 24th, 2019.
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