Heimat is a Space in Time

by Thomas Heise
  • 2018 Deckert Distribution GmbH | ThomasHeise
  • 2018 Deckert Distribution GmbH | ThomasHeise
  • 2018 Deckert Distribution GmbH | ThomasHeise
  • 2018 Deckert Distribution GmbH | ThomasHeise
  • 2018 Deckert Distribution GmbH | ThomasHeise
  • Thomas Heise
  • Thomas Heise

    Synopsis

    The film picks up the biographical pieces of a family torn apart through the end of the 19th and into the 20th century.
    The used material is what remained of Thomas Heise’s family.
    It is about people who by chance found each other, only then to lose each other.
    Now it is their descendants, their children and grandchildren who are beginning to disappear.
    Fathers and mothers, sons and brothers, the affairs, the hurt and the joy in landscapes of transition – each bearing the intertwining, hallmarks of their times. A collage of images, sounds, letters, diaries, notes, voices, fragments of time and space.

    Festivals

    2019 among other
    Winner of the Caligari Film Prize — 69th Berlinale / 49th FORUM
    16 dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg
    Winner of Meilleur long métrage de la Compétition - Visions du Réel, Nyon
    Crossing Europe, Linz
    Jeonju Intl. Film Festival
    Beldocs
    German Documentary Award 2019 - SWR DOKU FESTIVAL
    Karlovy Vary
    FIDMarseille
    Avner Shalev - Yad Vashem Chaiman's Award, Chantal Akerman Award – Jerusalem IFF
    Dokufest Prizren 2019
    Lussas IDF 2019
    44 TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival
    Pacific Meridian FF
    Message to Man IFF
    57 New York Film Festival
    Festival des deutschen Films Paris
    Mostra Sao Paulo IFF
    DocLisboa
    Antenna IDF Sydney
    West Lake IDF
    Valladolid IFF
    Thessaloniki IFF
    Minsk FF “Listapad”
    Documentaire sur grand écran 2
    Augenblick IFF
    Dharamshala IFF
    Mar del Plata IFF
    Special Jury Price – Int. Feature – RIDM Montréal
    Festival des deutschen Films China
    IDFA
    Torino IFF
    Best Film Award – Muestra de Cine Lanzarote
    Festival des Deutschen Films Moskau

    2020
    LOLA@Berlinale — Shortlisted for DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS DOKUMENTARFILM [German FilmAward]
    DPH:DOX
    Tromsø IFF
    Trieste IFF
    FICUNAM
    Vilnius IFF

    2021
    nominated for GRIMME Prize

    Director’s Statement

    The material used in this film is what remains of my family. The remnants of those I knew, whose circumstances I had been part of or had otherwise experienced. Remnants that mirror history. A history that is just as much my own.