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A FILM BY CLARA TRISCHLER
THE F IRST SEAFILMDELIGHTS PRESENTS A KINOMATON BERLIN PRODUCTION, MUSIC STEFAN TRISCHLER
AND CHRISTIAN MRAZEK COLOR GRADING KLAUS PAMMINGER ANIMATION MIKE KREN, SVENJAPLAAS PHOTOGRAPHY AGNES PRAMMER POSTER DESIGN PHIL SAMHABER SOUND DESIGN ANNA KIRSTMISCHUNG ALEXANDER KOLLER TONSTUDIO SYNCHRO FILM PRODUCTION MANAGER ELISABETH WEYDT
EDITOR SVENJA PLAAS DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY JAKOB FUHR CO-PRODUCER CLARA TRISCHLERPRODUCER SARITA SHARMA WRITER & DIRECTOR CLARA TRISCHLER
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"A TOUCHING STORYIN THE MIDST OF THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT"
PRESSKIT
Filmdelights presentsA Kinomaton Berlin production
THE FIRST SEAA film by Clara TrischlerGermany-Austria | 2013 | 60’ | HD
World premiereZürich Int FF 2013 (In competition)
FestivalsFilm Festival Max Ophüls Award 2014FIPA 2014Diagonale Graz 2014
PressSarita [email protected]
SalesChrista Auderlitzky [email protected]
Trailerhttp://vimeo.com/72998844http://www.facebook.com/thefirstsea
SynopsisFor Wafaa and Raneen the sea is just 40 kilometers away from their house in the West Bank, but the two 12 year old girls don’t have permits to cross the border into Israel. This changes when a group of peace activists orga-nize a day trip to the coast of Tel Aviv.
Wafaa is excited about her first visit to Israel, a country she has only ever heard stories about. Raneen, however, will not accompany her, as she has often experienced violent clashes between Israeli soldiers and people from her village. She refuses to accept an invitation from anybody occupying her family’s country. Despite such skeptical voices, the packed coach travels over the border to the beach, and the Palestinian guests are soon splashing around in the cool water with their Israeli hosts.
Meanwhile, with only a view over the huge wall to Israel, Raneen starts protesting in her village. With this film, documentary filmmaker Clara Trischler not only presents the problems of the Israeli settlement policy from a new and unusual perspective, but also highlights the contrast of pro-Palestinian projects. This is a story about the magic of first times, about borders, freedom and coexistence.
Director’s statementFor me the story started in 2009, when my former Israeli flat mate told me about the ini-tiative for Palestinians to be able to travel to the sea, for the first time in their lives. Some-thing about this story touched me, the surreal image of seemingly hostile groups spending a day on the beach together…
I decided to get my camera and took an ear-ly-morning-bus to write an article about it. First glances, first experiences. Their seeming sameness, almost naked, unarmed in the water. Their silent yet so personal communication.
That day ended, the floating tires were left void, and I thought about how little I still knew about the lives of the people I met that day, but also how little Israelis and Pales-tinians seemed to know about the other ones’ reality.
Film credits:
DirectorClara Trischler
Director of photographyJakob Fuhr
EditorSvenja Plaas
Head of sound designAnna Kirst
ProducerSarita Sharma
Co-ProducerClara Trischler
SupportersKulturabteilung der Stadt Wien MA7, Gebhardt Productions, Verein Freunde der Filmakademie Wien, Crowdfunders on Indiegogo.com, Cinema for Peace, öH Wien, Film and Music Austria, Mischief Films
Awards“Perspektive Österreichisches Nachwuchs-filmschaffen” Grant, Honorable Mention spec_script Award 2010
Director Clara TrischlerAustrian director Clara Trischler has always been interested in border issues, the extent to which someone is defined by the place one is born into, the influence of outer circum-stances on our personal stories and freedom. After studying at the European Film College in Denmark, she moved to Israel, where she worked for the World Centre for Holocaust Re-search “Yad Vashem” and as a correspondent for Austrian radio broadcasting during the Gaza War in 2009.
After a number of film internships in Berlin and New York, she started studying screenplay at the Film Academy of Vienna, where she dis-covered her love for documentary filmmaking. Since March 2013, Clara is continuing her film studies at the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte in Buenos Aires.
For “The First Sea”, her first long documentary film, Clara won the scholarship “Perspektive Österreichisches Nachwuchsfilmschaffen” and a Honorable Mention at the spec_script Award in 2010.
Seashells and Milk (director, documentary short, Israel/Palestine, 2012)
Albatrosse (Writer, short film, 35 mm/8mm, Director: Mike Kren, Austria 2013)
Tuppern (Writer, middlelenght film, Director: Vanessa Gräfingholt, Austria 2013)
Sinking Islands (director, short film, 16 mm, Austria 2010)
First Memories (director, documentary short, 16 mm, Austria 2010)
Sinai (director, documentary short, 16 mm, Austria 2009)
Contact Sales
FilmdelightsChrista Auderlitzky [email protected]
Phone/Fax +43 1 944 30 35Mobile +43 699 100 289 00Lindengasse 25/10, 1070 Vienna, Austria
Production companyKINOMATON Berlin was founded in 2006 by Sarita Sharma and is a film production company and creative storytelling lab, working in close professional rela-tionship with creative people from different disci-plines and countries.
The core activity is the production of documentary and fiction films for cinema and tv, as well as sto-rytelling via different platforms (internet, social media, mobile, transmedia,) with a focus on human stories, culture and society.
Recent productions include the German-Polish co-production FUCK FOR FOREST by Michal Marczak (Best Documentary Award at Warsaw International Film Festival in 2012, Rotterdam Film Festival, Mu-nich Documentary Festival, South by Southwest etc., German cinema premiere in June 2013), and feature documentary THE FIRST SEA by Clara Trischler that premiered in competition at Zürich Film Festival in October 2013.
Linkshttp://kinomaton.dehttp://www.facebook.com/thefirstsea
Contact Production/Press
Kinomato BerlinSarita [email protected]
Phone +49 30 280 463 40Fax +49 179 530 05 31Sophienstr. 18, 10178 Berlin, Germany