MOVIES - SHORTS
PASTRY, PAIN & POLITICS
by Stina Werenfels
An old Jewish couple is planning a summer vacation. She wants to go to Israel, and definitely not to Switzerland, a country that once refused her as a refugee. But for him Israel is too hot, and anyway full of Arabs. So off to Switzerland they go, where he suffers from heart attack. The nurse who saves his life is Palestinian.
Credits
Year: 1998
Country: CH
Running Time: 32 Min.
Director: Stina Werenfels
Author: Stina Werenfels
Producer: Dschoint Ventschr
Executive Producer: Karin Koch
Co-Producer: Aleppo Films, Navigator, SF DRS
Camera: Patrick Cady
Editor: Sabine Krayenbühl
Sound: Martin Stricker
Music: Peter Bräker
Gaffer: Ernst Brunner
Costumes: Sibille Welti
Make-up: Connie Sacchi
Set Designer: Karin Trauffer
Production Manager: Grischa Duncker
Production Assistant: Philip Schröder
Cast: Viola Harris, Jack Carter, Neza Selbuz, Stefan Rutz, Hanspeter Müller, Reante Schroeter, Klaus Henner Russius, Elisabeth Graf, Irina Schönen, Silke Geertz, Gerhart A. Goebel, Walter Küng
Awards Qualitätsprämie, Bundesamt für Kultur, 1998
Zürcher Filmpreis, 1998
Schweizer Filmpreis, Bester CH-Kurzfilm, 1999
Bundesamt für Kultur
Locarno Film Festival, New Swiss Talent, Eastman Kodak Award, 1998
Festival delle Donne Torino, Premio del Pubblico, Premio della Giuria, 1999
Festivals 6. Kurzfilm Woche Regensburg, 1999
Boston Jewish Film Festival, 1999
Int. Filmtage der Menschenrechte, 1991
Pantin 8e Coté court, 1999
11. Filmfest Dresden, 1999
Festival des österreichischen Films, 1999
28th Kiev Int. Film Festival ?Molodist?, 1998
7. Internationales Frauenfilmfestival, 1999
Festival du Court Métrage Clermont-Ferrand, 1999
Film Festival Saarbrücken, 1999
Rencontres Tout Ecran Genf, 1998
Internationale Filmtage Hof, 1998
International Film Festival Locarno, 1998
Solothurner Filmtage, 1999
Festival delle donne, Turin, 1999
Charleville, Méziéres, 2004
Festival Court Métrage, Nice, 2003
Swiss American Film Festival New York, 2003
Archepelago Rom, 2003
8th Int. Film Festival of Kerala, 2003
Hongkong, Jewish Film Festival, 2000
23rd Moscow Int. Film Festival, 2001
Jewish Cinema Melbourne/Sydney/Perth, 1999
Filmfestival Münster, 1999
Filmfest Ludwigsburg/Stuttgart, 1999
