ANIMA - My Father´s Dresses
2022
A feature documentary by Uli Decker
A Flare Film Production in co-production with ZDF/ Das kleine Fernsehspiel
with support by Die Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Filmförderfonds Bayern, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung and DFFF.
RELEASE DATES
Oct 20, 2022 Theatrical release Germany (Farbfilm Verleih)
Nov 4, 2022 Theatrical release Austria (Polyfilm)
SYNOPSIS
"ANIMA - My fathers dresses" is a film by director Uli Decker about family secrets, gender roles, love and a childhood in the Bavarian provinces.
Little Uli wants to become a pirate or the pope, but in no way does she want to fit into the role stereotypes of her Bavarian village. After her father dies, her mother hands her his "secret" box as an inheritance.
The contents suddenly change her view of her father, herself, her family and the society in which she grew up. She opens up the diaries and herself for a dialogue with her deceased father, with whom she kept a strange distance during his lifetime. The result is an almost anarchic film, full of humour, fantasy and sensitivity about identity, love and gender issues, which tells the story of a family and a society at the same time. A rollercoaster ride through animated and documentary imagery.
CREW
Director: Uli Decker
Writers: Uli Decker, Rita Bakacs
Director of Photography: Siri Klug
Sound Mixers: Philip Hutter, Ludwig Fiedler, Jannik Flieger, Silvio Reichenbach
Animation: Falk Schuster, Julian Quitsch
Editors: Amparo Mejías, Frank Müller
Music: Anna Kühlein
Sound Design: Sebastian Schmidt, Valentin Spiegel
Re-Recording Mixer: Olaf Mehl
Post-production Supervisor: Jule Deumling
Editorial consultant: Sabine Steyer-Violet
Junior Producer: Isis Struiksma
Associate Producer: Nadja Smith
Line Producers: Martina Hedwig, Ruth Ersfeld
Producers: Katharina Bergfeld, Martin Heisler
Commissioning Editor: Burkhard Althoff (ZDF/DKF)
Protagonists: Helmut Decker, Monika Decker, Cordula Decker, Uli Decker, Cora Frost, Irmtraud Karlitschek, Herbert Karlitschek, Inge Schleussinger, Christl Spiegel
Featuring songs by Cora Frost
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis, Germany, January 2022 (world premiere)
★ Winner Audience Award
★ Winner Best Documentary Award
Documentary Filmfestival Thessaloniki, Greece, March 2022 (international premiere)
★ Winner WIFT GR Award (women in film and television award)
Achtung Berlin Filmfestival, Germany, April 2022
★ Winner Best Documentary Award
★ Award of the ecumenical jury
Dok.fest Munich, Germany, May 2022
nominated for the award of the Goethe-Institute
DOKKA Karlsruhe, Germany, Mai 2022 (opening film)
Der neue Heimatfilm Freistadt, Austria, August 2022 (Austrian premiere)
★ Special mention, documentary competition
Fünf Seen Filmfestival, Germany, September 2022
Reykjavík International Film Festival, October 2022
FIDBA, Festival Internacional De Cine Documental de Buenos Aires, December 2022
★ Winner International competition
★ Shortlisted for the German Film Academy Award 2023
★ Nominated for the German Documentary Award 2023
ANIMA - MY FATHER’S DRESSES, cinema trailer Germany, German theatrical release: Oct 20, 2022, Austria: Nov 4, 2022