Walchensee Forever
2020
A feature documentary by Janna Ji Wonders
A Flare Film production, In co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk,
with support from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and DFFF.
World Sales: Deckert Distribution
RELEASE DATES:
Oct 21, 2021 Theatrical release Germany (Farbfilm Verleih)
Nov 5, 2021 Theatrical release Austria (Polyfilm)
April 21, 2022 digital und DVD release
Nov 9, 2022 TV-Premiere 22:45 at Bayerischer Rundfunk
SYNOPSIS:
In her documentary family saga WALCHENSEE FOREVER, director Janna Ji Wonders embarks on a voyage of discovery spanning four generations of women over a century. In order to uncover the secrets and her role in the generation chain, she leads us from the family café at the Bavarian Lake Walchensee via Mexico to San Francisco during the “Summer of Love”, Indian ashrams, a German commune and back again and again to Lake Walchensee. Questions about identity, roots and self-fulfillment are asked through this search for life, love and death. It is a personal story about the eternal cycle of life.
CREW:
Writer/Director: Janna Ji Wonders
Editor: Anja Pohl
Co-Writer: Nico Woche
Photography: Sven Zellner, Janna Ji Wonders and Anna Werner
Sound Design: Jörg Elsner
Re-recording Mix: Michael Hinreiner
Music: Markus Acker and Cico Beck
Producers: Martin Heisler, Katharina Bergfeld, Nadja Smith
Comissioning Editors: Petra Felber, Fatima Abdollahyan (BR)
FESTIVALS & AWARDS:
Berlinale 2020, Perspektive Deutsches Kino
★ Kompass-Perspektive-Award
• Thessaloniki IDD, Griechenland, 2020
★ Golden Alexander Newcomers Award
• DOK.fest München @home, 2020
• Istanbul IFF, Türkei2020
• Biografilm, Italien, 2020
★ Best Film Unipol Award
• Fünf Seen Filmfestival, Germany, 26.8.-9.9.2020
• DocAviv Filmfest, Israel, verschoben auf den 03.-12.09.2020
• Musikfilmtage Oberaudorf, 16.09.2020, Eröffnungsfilm
• Film Ohne Grenzen Festival, Bad Saarow, 20.09.2020
• Festival Du Cinéma Allemand, Frankreich, 14.10.2020
• Riga IFF, Lettland, 2020
• 4. West Lake International Film Festival, China, 17.10.2020
• Seminci Valladolid, Spanien, 24.10. - 31.10.2020
• FILM Mainz, 08.11.2020, Matinee Capitol/Palatine
• Braunschweig Internationales Filmfestival, 02.11-08.11.2020 Festival-on-Demand
• Minsk IFF “Listapad”,Belarus, 06.11.-13.11.2020
• exground filmfest 2020, Wiesbaden, 13.11.-22.11.2020
★ Audience Award
• Festival of German Films, China, 13.11.-22.11.2020
• Kasseler Dokfest, 19.11.2020 Gloria Kino
• PÖFF – Tallinn Black Nights IFF, Estland, 13.11.- 29.11.2020
• GZDOC 2020, China, 14.12.-17.12.2020
• Peleponnisos IDF, Griechenland, 05.02.-15.02.2021
• Budapest IDF, Ungarn, 03.04. - 08.04.2021
• Tempo IDF 2021, Schweden, 08.03 - 14-03.2021
• Vilnius IFF, Litauen, 18.03. - 05.04.2021
• Taiwan IDF, 24.06.10.07.2021
• Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival, Türkei, 27.05.- 03.06.2021
• Kyiv IFF Molodist, Ukraine, 29.05.21 - 06.06.21
• AUGENBLICK Filmfest 2021
• HER Docs Filmfest Warsaw 2021
• European Film Festival Bucharest, Dezember 2021
AWARDS:
★ Winner Bayerischer Filmpreis, Bester Dokumentarfilm 2019
★ Berlinale Kompass-Perspektive-Preis, 2020
★ Golden Alexander Newcomers Award,Thessaloniki 2020
★ Biografilm Best Film Unipol Award, Italien 2020
★ German cinematographers award for BEST EDITING for Anja Pohl, 2020
✩ Nominated German Documentary Award, 2020
★ Audience Award „Der Neue Heimatfilm“ in Austria, 2020
★ Audience Award „Fünf Seen Filmfestival“ 2020
✩ Pre-selected for European Film Award, 2020
★ Audience Award at „Festival Du Cinéma Allemand“ in France, 2020
✩ Pre-selected for German Film Awards 2021 (Category „Documentary“)
★ Editor Anja Pohl nominated for BEST EDITING at German Film Awards 2021
★ Nomination for BESTER DOCUMENTARY at German Film Awards 2021
★ Editor Anja Pohl wins Edimotion Bild-Kunst-Preis, 2022