Am Himmel
A Film by Magdalena Chmielewska
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© Manuel Prett
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© Manuel Prett
Synopsis
HEAVEN’S MEADOW
It is night in Heaven’s Meadow, on the outskirts of Vienna. Injured and barefoot, Maya runs back home, to the city center. Next day she reports the incident of the prior evening. She undergoes a check-up and files an official statement: assaulted by several perpetrators, no traces of semen, but internal injuries. Rather than falling apart, Maya takes off to Italy to see Daniel. There, she hopes to forget. She wants to regain control of her life. But instead, she keeps floating through the world like an unanchored island.
Director
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Magdalena Chmielewska
Polish-born film director schooled at the Austrian famed Filmakademie Wien (directing & editing) and the Polish Wajda Masterschool of Directing. Her experimental short film GRETCHEN AM SPINNRADE made 2015 under the auspices of Michael Haneke won the Audience Award at the Songbook Contest on ARTE. During her film studies she was awarded a scholarship for achievements for the Department of Visual Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona. In 2018 the Federal Chancellery of Austria rewarded her with a grant for developing her first long feature screenplay OLKA. The German Film Academy in Berlin awarded her last work AM HIMMEL with the prestigious FIRST STEPS AWARD for the best medium length feature film.
Awards + Festivals
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20th DIAGONALE (Official Selection / Austrian Short Film September, Graz, Austria)March 17, 2018
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EUROPEAN UNION FILM FESTIVAL LOS ANGELES - representing Austria (Official Selection, Los Angeles, USA)May 11, 2018
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21th FLYING BROOM INT'L WOMEN FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Ankara, Turkey)May 27, 2018
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*WINNER: MEDIUM LENGHT FILM*18th FIRST STEPS AWARD (Official Selection, Berlin, Germany) September 24, 2018
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40th MAX OPHÜLS PREIS (Official Selection - Medium Length Film, Saarbrücken, Germany)January 18, 2019
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33rd TEL AVIV INT'L STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection/International Shorts, Tel Aviv, Israel)June 17, 2019
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*WINNER: BEST FICTION FILM*2nd JUVINALE NACHWUCHSFILMFESTIVAL (Official Selection, Salzburg, Austria)July 4, 2019
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10th DOTDOTDOT OPEN AIR FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Vienna, Austria)July 7, 2019
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KUNST MACHT FILM KURZFILMABEND (Official Selection, Mainz, Germany)September 11, 2019
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22nd ICARO - FESTIVAL INT'L DE CINE EN CENTROAMÉRICA (Official Selection, Guatemala)November 8, 2019
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26th INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ETIUDA&ANIMA 2019 (Official Selection, Krakow, Poland)November 19, 2019
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*FEMALE DIRECTOR AWARD*14th INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL ZUBROFFKA (Official Selection, Bialystok, Poland)December 4, 2019
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6th INTERNATIONAL USAK WINGES SEAHORSE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Usak, Turkey)December 9, 2019
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*FEMALE DIRECTOR AWARD*10th BRIDGES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Nafplio, Greece)January 27, 2020
Trailer
Crew
Director |
Magdalena Chmielewska |
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Screenplay |
Magdalena Chmielewska, Andreas Schiessler |
Producer |
Yana Eresina |
Director of Photography |
Manuel Prett |
Art Direction |
Klaudia Kiczak |
Costume Design |
Ines Österreicher |
Sound |
Norbert Bichler |
Editor |
Magdalena Chmielewska, Laszlo Vancsa |
Sound Design |
Maggie Cha, Carlo Pelikan, Norbert Bichler, Chris Kuchner |
Sound Mixer |
Alexander Koller |
Music |
Henry Purcell arr./prod. by Adam Lukas, Kuba Karaś & The Dumplings, Heinrich Hnull Kupfner |
Details
Running Time |
29:57 min |
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Shooting Format |
Digital HD |
Screening Format |
DCP, BluRay, DVD, .mov, mp4 (HD) |
Aspect Ratio |
1,85:1 |
Sound |
Stereo |
Contact
FILM FESTIVAL AGENCY |
Markus Kaatsch |
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FILM SCHOOL |
Filmakademie Wien |
DIRECTOR |
Magdalena Chmielewska |
SALES AGENCY |
sixpackfilm |