Little Germans

A film by Mohammad Farokhmanesh & Frank Geiger
Documentary | 90 min | AUT, GER | 2019
A co-production with brave new work, Little Dream Entertainment

SYNOPSIS

LITTLE GERMANS combines animation and documentary film to tell the story of children that are born into extreme right-wing families. From a young age on they are trained to hate everything that seems 'foreign'. How does it feel to grow up in a world, where empathy is subsidiary and 'the nation' stands above everything? And who do those 'little Germans' become once they grow up?

DISTRIBUTION

AUSTRIA
FILMLADEN FILMVERLEIH

GERMANY
LITTLE DREAM ENTERTAINMENT

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AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

69. BERLINALE 2019
Shortlisted for German Film Award Documentary 2019

13th Zurich Film Festival
Jihlava Int. Documentary Film Festival
Crossing Europe 2017
Diagonale 2017 – Official Competition
CPH:DOX 2017 – Special Screenings
FIPA Festival Int. de Programmes Audiovisuels
A Design Film Festival 2017
Bergen Int. Film Festival
Socaviv Int. Documentary Film Festival
Dockville in Leuven
DOXA Documentary Film Festival
Festival des Libertès
Foyle Film Festival
Int. Documentary Film Festival CENTER
Millenium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
Pan European Screening:
Against Gravity (Poland)
El Documental Del Mes (Spain)
New Notions Cinema (Northern Ireland) and
Documentary Filmclub (Berlin)
Umwelttage olang in Südtirol
Take One Action Film Festival
Utopia by Goethe Institut:
Jerusalem, Tel Aviv & Haifa

13th Zurich Film Festival
Jihlava Int. Documentary Film Festival 2017
Crossing Europe 2017
Diagonale 2017 – Official Feature Film Competition
CPH:DOX 2017 – Special Screenings
FIPA Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels 2017
A Design Film Festival 2017
Bergen Int. Film Festival
Socaviv Int. Documentary Film Festival
Dockville in Leuven
DOXA Documentary Film Festival
Festival des Libertès
Foyle Film Festival
Int. Documentary Film Festival CENTER in Moscow
Millenium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
Pan European Screening:
Against Gravity (Poland), El Documental Del Mes (Spain), New Notions Cinema (Northern Ireland) and
Documentary Filmclub (Berlin)
Umwelttage olang in Südtirol
Take One Action Film Festival
Utopia by Goethe Institut in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa

FESTIVALS

69. Berlinale 2019
CPH:DOX Copenhagen
15 DOKVILLE - SWR DOKU FESTIVAL

13th Zurich Film Festival
Jihlava Int. Documentary Film Festival
Crossing Europe 2017
Diagonale 2017 – Official Competition
CPH:DOX 2017 – Special Screenings
FIPA Festival Int. de Programmes Audiovisuels
A Design Film Festival 2017
Bergen Int. Film Festival
Socaviv Int. Documentary Film Festival
Dockville in Leuven
DOXA Documentary Film Festival
Festival des Libertès
Foyle Film Festival
Int. Documentary Film Festival CENTER
Millenium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
Pan European Screening:
Against Gravity (Poland)
El Documental Del Mes (Spain)
New Notions Cinema (Northern Ireland) and
Documentary Filmclub (Berlin)
Umwelttage olang in Südtirol
Take One Action Film Festival
Utopia by Goethe Institut:
Jerusalem, Tel Aviv & Haifa

13th Zurich Film Festival
Jihlava Int. Documentary Film Festival 2017
Crossing Europe 2017
Diagonale 2017 – Official Feature Film Competition
CPH:DOX 2017 – Special Screenings
FIPA Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels 2017
A Design Film Festival 2017
Bergen Int. Film Festival
Socaviv Int. Documentary Film Festival
Dockville in Leuven
DOXA Documentary Film Festival
Festival des Libertès
Foyle Film Festival
Int. Documentary Film Festival CENTER in Moscow
Millenium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
Pan European Screening:
Against Gravity (Poland), El Documental Del Mes (Spain), New Notions Cinema (Northern Ireland) and
Documentary Filmclub (Berlin)
Umwelttage olang in Südtirol
Take One Action Film Festival
Utopia by Goethe Institut in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa

QUOTES

»Little Germans is a difficult film. Difficult because the animation puts distance between the viewer and what is happening on screen. Difficult because the right-wing-extremism of Elsas Grandfather and Husband can’t be compared to the right-wing-extremism of Sellner or Kubitschek. Difficult, because the interviewees show different faces to us, than to their peers.« – DIE PRESSE

»An evocativ and technically successful film. The importance of this film can not be overstated« – PROGRAMMKINO.DE

»Little Germans – A documentary with potential for conflict« – FEMME.DE

»The right film at the right time« – LDE

»The film has the potential to challenge people’s stances and get them to consider an unconditional basic income!« – KLAUS KOFLER, FUTUROLOGIST

»A film that today has already documented the world of tomorrow.« – MICHAEL BOHMEYER, GRUNDEINKOMMEN.DE

INFO

RUNNING TIME – 90 minutes
ORIGINAL LANGUAGES – German
SUBTITLES – German, English
LOCATIONS – Germany, Austria
SCREENING FORMAT – DCP, BluRay
SOUND FORMAT – Dolby SRD 5.1
ASPECT RATIO – 1,85:1
PICTURES/SEC – 24

CREW

WRITERS
Frank Geiger, Armin Hofmann & Mohammad Farokhmanesh

DIRECTORS
Mohammad Farokhmanesh & Frank Geiger

CINEMATOGRAPHER
Marcus Winterbauer

EDITORS
Andrew Bird, Habiba Laout, Frank Geiger

PRODUCERS
Mohammad Farokhmanesh, Frank Geiger, Ali Samadi Ahadi, Armin Hofmann, Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber & Karin C. Berger

CAST

Götz Kubitschek
Ellen Kositza
Martin Sellner
Sigrid Schüßler

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