MOVIES - SHORTS
SUMMERTIME
by Anna Luif
VOD
Thirteen-year-old Nadja is spending her summer vacation at home. She is bored to death until a new tenant moves in with whom she falls madly in love. But what she doesnt know yet: he is her mothers new boyfriend.
Nadja begins to spy on him, taking photographs of him and secretly forcing her way into his apartment. Eventually she cant take it anymore and feels compelled to confess her love to Michael. But then she discovers that he is seeing a woman. She is horrified to discover that this secret girlfriend of his is her own mother. Nadjas whole world collapses around her. Spilling over with rage, she cuts up her mothers clothes. It leads to an argument between mother and daughter. Nadja feels betrayed and abandoned. Wanting to take revenge on her mother, she tries to seduce Michael. But at the last moment, he rejects her impetuous advances. Nadja realizes that she has gone too far and flees from the apartment, confused and afraid. She eventually finds comfort and understanding from her mother and comes to realize that shes not yet ready for the adult world.
Credits
Year: 2000
Country: CH
Running Time: 27 Min.
Director: Anna Luif
Author: Anna Luif
Producer: Samir
Executive Producer: Karin Koch
Co-Producer: SF DRS
Camera: Stéphane Kuthy
Editor: Myriam Flury
Sound: Frank Behnke
Music: Balz Bachmann
Gaffer: André Pinkus
Costumes: Selina Peyer
Make-up: Dorothea Stich
Set Designer: Chantal Wuhrmann
Cast: Marina Guerrini, Lucy Marthaler, Samuel Weiss, Susanne-Marie Wrage, Ella Büchi, Bruno Nötzli, Philippe Nauer, Jolanda Graf, Fabienne Notter
Awards SUMMERTIME lief ausserdem im Programm Swiss Films Season des Asian Film Centres in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Oktober 2004
Nomination European Film Awards
Preis für den besten Nachwuchsfilm, Suisseimage
Le Grand Prix du Jury du Court Metrage Européen, Angers, 2000 (ex aequo mit La Scoperta di Walter von Paolo Genovese und Luca Miniero)
Film- und Videofestival Spiez, Beste Hauptdarstellerin (Marina Guerrini)
Internationales Kurzfilmvestival Oberhausen: Lobende Erwähnung der FICC-Jury.
Pardi di Domani 1. Preis, International Film Festival Locarno, 2000
Filmpreis der Stadt Zürich
Gran Premio al miglior film, Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Siena
Premio al miglior film di fiction, Internationales Kurzfilm Festival Siena
Preis ?Publikumsliebling im Internationalen Wettbewerb?, Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, 2000
Publikumspreis, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, 2000
Prix de la presse, Clermont-Ferrand, 2001
Prix du jury oecuménique, Clermont-Ferrand 2001
2. Preis am Dresden Filmfest, 2001
1. Preis am Hildesheimer Kurzfilmfestival, 2001
Silver Plaque, Chicago International Film Festival, Short Film Competition
Schweizer Filmpreis ?Bester Kurzfilm? 2001
Publikumspreis der Stadt Bamberg, Bamberg, 2002
Festivals Bamberger Kurzfilmtage, 2008
Luzern, Film Festival for Schools, 2007
9. Internationales Kurzfilmfest Tübingen 2001
8th International Film Festival of Kerala, 2003
37th Chicago Int. Film Festival, 2001
Short Film Festival Sao Paolo, 2000
Internationale Hofer Filmtage
AFI Fest Los Angeles, 2000
Solothurner Filmtage, 2000
Innerschweizer Filmtage, 2000
53. Festival internazionale del film di Locarno 2000
Festival du Film Paris, 2000
Short Cuts Köln, 2000
Festival du Film court Brest, 2000
Giffoni Film Festival Salerno, 2000
Festival de la cité Lausanne, 2000
Viennale, 2000
Pantin Seine-Saint Denis, 2000
Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, 2000
Film Festival Rotterdam, 2001
Internationale Kurzfilmtage, 2000
Filmfest Dresden, 2001
Filmfest Stuttgart Ludwigsburg, 2001
Festival international du court-métrage Clermont-Ferrand, 2001
Premiers Plans Angers, 2000
Canadian Film Maker Centre
Film Festival Lleida
Castellinaria Siena
