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Synopsis

Amal, a 13-year-old refugee from Lebanon, deals drugs in the
Hannover subway system. He lives an isolated life in an asylum home
outside the city. One day he meets a young German girl called Clara,
who might be his savior. 


Director's Statement

The story of LÄUFER, is inspired by real events that happened in Berlin,
not far away from where I live. The police repeatedly arrested very young
drug dealers in the subway, sometimes they were not more than 12-13 years old.
Often they were asylum seekers from Lebanon, without any family in Germany.
If they were found to be above the age of 14, they were to be immediately deported.
I imagined how it must feel being one of the kids, perhaps just longing for a
normal teenage life, and made LÄUFER.

Screenings – 2013

screens @ "Germany Shorts" Cannes Court Métrage
May 15 – 26th, 2013

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achtung berlin - new berlin film award
April 17th – 24th, 2013
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Die Screeningtermine:
Freitag 19.04, 21:30 Uhr Filmtheater am Friedrichshain
Sonntag 21.04, 21:30 Uhr, Passage Neukölln
zusätzliche Vorführung: Samstag 20.04, 22:30 Uhr, Babylon 3

European Film Market / Berlinale 2013
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Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
@"Soirée Allemande • Coup de cœur - Le court métrage allemand"

FILM DATA

Main cast
Artem Klevansky (Lead)
Rebecca Stein (Lead)

Crew
Writer/Director/Editor: Carolina Hellsgård
DP: Kathrin Krottenthaler
1st A.C.: Simon Hamann
Sound recorder: Robert Fuhrmann
Production manager: Andrea Giesel 
Assistant director: Christian Kelm
UPM: Julika Martin 
Light: Carsten Brand, Florian Hoff
DIT: Andreas Melcher 
Scenography: Nadine Meister
Costume design: Nadine Meister, Elena Neuthinger
Make-up: Henrike Huppertsberg 
Production assistants: Helen Werner, Valerie Hellman
Production interns: Bente Ehrig (director's assistant), Magdalena Tucka (light)
Child supervision: Heidi Pettit
Costume design assistant: Anne Makarov
Music: Steffen Scholz  
Sound designer: Christian Obermaier
Color correction: Chroma TV, Hamburg 

Technical info: HD, 14 minutes
Produced by FLICKFILM GbR
Producer: Johanna Aust 
Co-producer: Florian Gerstenberg / filmgestalten

With generous support by

CHROMA TV

FILMBLICK Hannover

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Equipment sponsoring: Braunschweig University of Art

Funded by nordmedia Fonds and the cast&cut Short Film Grant
FFA, German Federal Film Board