Garage People
Festivals/Awards
2020Heiner Carow Prize — 70 Berlinale PERSPECTIVE
CPH:DOX
Full Frame DFF, Durham North Carolina
Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
EURIMAGES "Audentia Award" — Sarajevo Film Festival
Fünf Seen Film Festival
DocAviv International Documentary Film Festival
Astra Film Festival
nominated Deutscher Dokumentarfilmpreis — German Documentary Award
FFOS Osnabrück
IDFA – Best Of Fests
62 NFL — Nordic Filmdays
Kharkiv MeetDocs
exground filmfest
2021
shortlisted for LOLA2021 — Deutscher Filmpreis Dokumentarfilm #lola21
2022
LETsDOK
Statement of the Jury Heiner Carow Prize:
“The manhole cover is my door, but I'm happy. My life is beautiful,” says one of the characters in the film. Reaching a decision was very difficult for us in this strong year of the Perspektive Deutsches Kino. We chose Natalija Yefimkina's Garagenvolk. Cinema at its best.
The director allows us to peer into a microcosm that seems like a parallel world to us. The complex world of a morbid garage complex in a mining town in northern Russia is reminiscent of an allotment garden colony. In each of these small garages, as the film increasingly takes its time in observing, a universe of its own begins to unfold. Characters that seem bizarre at first become reflectors of society. Love, friendship and alcohol, dreams of prosperity and the future as well as inklings of joy all find a home here.
The future of all these people is NOW. And if the restless action, whether it is the search for scrap expansion of the basement, the crooked tones of the punk band rehearsal, the beating or the carved icons, if this action comes to a standstill, then the flow of life also stops, for there is no future then. While one of the protagonists digs five floors beneath his garage, a Sisyphean task without a goal, other than the delight of the moment, the film unearths images of a metaphorical dimension that go beyond mere observation. The absurdity of the actions in the characters' general hopelessness transforms the garage world more and more into reality. It's not the characters in the film who live in a parallel world, it's we who do.
Cast and Crew
- Director Natalija Yefimkina
- Producer Andrea Schütte, Dirk Decker
- Director of Photography Axel Schneppat
- Editor Nicole Fischer, Lucia Gerhardt, Markus Schmidt, Barbara Toennieshen
- Sound Ivan Arapov , Alexey Antonov
Original Languages
Russian
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Production Company
Tamtam Film GmbHBerhringstr. 16, 22765 Hamburg
Phone: +49 40 32522330
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Links / Reference
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DISTRIBUTION Germany
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