IRON

by Benjamin Kahlmeyer
  • 2015 Penrose Film GmbH & Co. KG
  • Benjamin Kahlmeyer
  • Benjamin Kahlmeyer

    Synopsis

    A foggy landscape with new buildings in Eisenhüttenstadt at the German-Polish border: 'Eisen', Iron, that’s how they call the town here. Portraits of asylum seekers from all over the world are set among impressions of a dreary life in a strictly composed sequence of images.
    A snapshot of a life on hold, somewhere in between hope and uncertainty.

    Festivals

    DOK Leipzig 2015 awarded with Golden Dove Documentary Short
    Other Movie Lugano 2016 - Miglior Film
    A38 Stipendium – Kasseler Dokfest 2016
    FILMZ Mainz 2016 - Best Documentary
    Humans Fest Valencia 2016 - Best Short Film

    DOK Leipzig 2015
    IKFF Landshut 2016
    Int’l Kurzfilmwoche, Regensburg 2016
    Achtung Berlin 2016
    Open Ohr Festival 2016, Mainz
    EMAF, Osnabrück 2016
    Cellu l’art, Jena 2016
    Neiße Filmfestival 2016
    Changing Perspectives 2016, Istanbul
    OstAnders Filmfestival 2016, Nuremberg
    Other Movie Filmfestival 2016, Lugano
    Cinema Jove 2016, Valencia
    Filmfest Emden-Norderney 2016
    Clermont-Ferrand ISFF 2016
    8. Solanin Film Festival 2016
    Guimarães Cinema Som 2016
    FILMZ Festival des Deutschen Films 2016, Mainz
    5th Dublin Doc Fest 2016
    Pravo Ljudski Film Festival 2016
    33. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest
    Exground Filmfest 2016, Wiesbaden
    40. Filmfest Weiterstadt 2017
    Humans Fest VI 2017, Valencia
    Lichter Filmfest 2017, Frankfurt