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Light and Shade

Year
2014
Country
Germany
Duration
45’’
Director
Daniel Andreas Sager

In the desolate towns of former Eastern Germany, the life of the people seems to have fossilized. The dissolution of the German Democratic Republic brought their world to a standstill. Three men unite in a community of suffering, with their lives destroyed by reunification. Although from different backgrounds, they join in drowning their sorrows in alcohol. There’s no going forward and no going back. A reflection on past, present and future.

Production
Filmakademie BW, Akademiehof 10, Germany, +491636313142, [email protected], Daniel Sager
Sales:
+49 (0) 7141 / 969 193, [email protected], Sigrid Gairing
Director
Daniel Andreas Sager

Daniel Andreas Sager was born in Berlin in 1985 and grew up in Moscow. After graduating high school, he studied social anthropology and philosophy in Leipzig. He is studying film direction at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. With a grant for students with special talent, he studied one year at the UCINE film school in Buenos Aires.

Selected Filmography

Licht und Schatten (2014)

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A Sacrifice
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A Sacrifice
Year
2013
Country
UK, India
Director
Theo Hessing
Duration
23’ ’
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Another Country
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Another Country
Year
2014
Country
Russia
Director
Renato Borrayo Serrano
Duration
29’’
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Notes from Liberia
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Notes from Liberia
Year
2015
Country
USA
Directors
Ryo Murakami, Judd Ehrlich
Duration
25’’
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Nowhere Place
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Nowhere Place
Year
2014
Country
The Netherlands
Director
Susanne Opstal
Duration
27’’
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I
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I
Year
2013
Country
The Netherlands
Director
Jona Honer
Duration
27’’
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Post Maidan
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Post Maidan
Year
2014
Country
Ukraine
Director
Serhiy Andrushko
Duration
42’’
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Bear
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Bear
Year
2014
Country
Germany
Director
Pascal Flörks
Duration
9’’
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Hotel 22
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Hotel 22
Year
2014
Country
USA
Director
Elizabeth Lo
Duration
8’’
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Maidan Everywhere
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Maidan Everywhere
Year
2015
Country
Ukraine
Director
Kateryna Gornostay
Duration
36’’
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Prisoners of Kanun
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Prisoners of Kanun
Year
2013
Country
Spain
Director
Roser Corella
Duration
30’’
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Smile, and the World Will Smile Back
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Smile, and the World Will Smile Back
Year
2014
Country
Israel
Directors
Diaa, Shatha, Abdelkarim and Ahmad al-Haddad, Ehab Tarabieh, Yoav Gross
Duration
20’’
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Starting Point
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Starting Point
Year
2014
Country
Poland
Director
Michał Szcześniak
Duration
25’’
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The Doctor Leaves Last
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The Doctor Leaves Last
Year
2014
Country
Hungary, Ukraine
Director
Svitlana Shymko
Duration
26’ ’
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The PE Teacher, Gold and the River
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The PE Teacher, Gold and the River
Year
2014
Country
Kyrgyzstan
Director
Amanbek Azhymat
Duration
28’’
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This Place We Call Our Home
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This Place We Call Our Home
Year
2014
Country
Denmark
Directors
Thora Lorentzen, Sybilla Marie Tuxen
Duration
30’’
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Werka
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Werka
Year
2014
Country
Poland
Director
Paweł Łoziński
Duration
40’’
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Where I Can’t Be Found
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Where I Can’t Be Found
Year
2014
Country
Poland, India
Director
Arjun Talwar
Duration
16’’
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