FORGET ME NOT
2012
A Documentary Film by David Sieveking
A LICHTBLICK MEDIA and LICHTBLICK FILM production.
In co-production with BR, HR, arte.
With support from mit FFA, DFFF, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Medienbord Berlin-Brandenburg, Hessische Filmförderung.
Distributor Germany: Farbfilm Verleih
World Sales: Autlook Filmsales
SYNOPSIS:
David Sieveking portrays the domestic care of his mother Gretel, who, like millions of others, is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. David’s parents were active in the student movement of the 1960s and led an „open relationship“, which is now being tested in a dramatic way through the mother’s illness. The changes taking place within the mother forces the family to deal with its own conflicts and even teaches them new ways to express their feelings and experience intimacy, bringing them all closer together. With humor and candor, David Sieveking’s family chronicle is characterized by unaffected participation and loving affection, where it is the human being at the center of the story, not the illness.
TEAM:
Writer/Director: David Sieveking
Producers: Martin Heisler, Carl-Ludwig Rettinger
Production Manager: Gabriele Simon
Commissioning Editors: Claudia Gladziejewski (BR) I Monika Lobkowicz (BR arte) I Jochen Kölsch (BR arte) I Liane Jessen (HR)
Director of Photography: Adrian Stähli
Sound Mixers: Juri von Krause I Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer
Sound-design: Björn Wiese
Film Editor: Catrin Vogt
Music: Jessica de Rooij
PREMIERE
65. Festival del film Locarno - Settima de la Critica, 2012
★ Best Film
GERMAN PREMIERE
DOK Leipzig - 55. Int. Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, 2012
★ Goethe-Institute-Award
FESTIVALS & AWARDS 2012:
★ Hessischer Filmpreis for Best Documentray
• 8. Zurich Film Festival, Schweiz
• Reykjavík International Film Festival, Island
• 29. Kasseler Dokfest
• 26. Internationales Filmfest Braunschweig
• RIDM - Rencontres Internationales de Documentaire de Montréal
• 23. Kinofest Lünen - Festival für deutsche Filme
★ Best Script and Best Editing awards
✩ nominated for Best Score
FESTIVALS & AWARDS 2013:
✩ nominated German Film Award as “Best Documentary Film”
✩ nominated for the German Documentary Film Awards
• International Film Festival Rotterdam - Sektion "Bright Future"
• Docpoint Helsinki I Docpoint Tallinn, Finnland I Estland
• Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken
• 15th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Griechenland
• Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International
• Ha érteni akarod a világot, Ungarn
• It's all true International Documentary Film Festival, São Paolo Brasilien
• Kino! 2013: New Films from Germany at MoMa New York, USA
• DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, Kanada
• Documenta Madrid, Spanien
★ Special Jury Award
• Docaviv, Tel Aviv Israel
• Planete + Doc Film Festival, Warschau Polen
★ Millennium Award
• 19. Shanghai TV Festival, China
✩ nominiert für den Magnolia Ward
• Sheffield Doc/Fest, Irland
• Astra Film Festival Sibiu, Rumänien
• Panorama Alemão, Brasilien
• 17th German Film Festival , Goethe Institut Singapur
• Black Nights Film Festival Tallinn, Estland
• Festival Augenblick, Elsaß
★ Jury Award and Audience Award
• Docaviv in Town, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
• 7. Dokumentarfilmfestival "DOC-EST" Iasi, Rumänien
• Documentary Film Center Moskau, Russland
• Surdocs Film Festival Santiago de Chile
• Made in Germany Film Festival, Goethe Istitut Tiflis, Georgien
• Cinema Verite Iran International Documentary Film Festival, Iran
FESTIVALS & AWARDS 2014:
• "Kino 2014" Goethe Institut Lissabon, Portugal
• Rasa Film Festival for the Disabled, Indien
★ Innovating Film Award
• 11. ImagéSanté - Festival International du Film de Santé Lüttich, Belgien
★ Grand Prix
• German Currents Film Festival San Diego, USA
• American Documentary Film FEstival Palm Springs, USA
• Festival Nuovo Cinema Europa, Goethe Institut Genua, Italien
★ Audience Award
• Pjöngjang Int. Film Festival, Nordkorea
★ Best Documentary