LOVEMOBIL

by Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss
  • 2019 Christoph Rohrscheidt
  • 2019 Christoph Rohrscheidt
  • 2019 Christoph Rohrscheidt
  • 2019 Christoph Rohrscheidt
  • 2019 Christoph Rohrscheidt
  • 2019 Christoph Rohrscheidt

    Synopsis

    When night falls in rural Germany, old VW-caravans decorated with flashy lights line the country roads which lead through potato fields and dark forests. Inside theses buses prostitutes from Eastern Europe and Africa await their clients who are passing by. The film portraits these women who came from far away in search for money and a better life. Until one day, in the ghostly atmosphere, a murder on one of the prostitutes happens and shakes up the whole scenery causing everybody to take action. A film about a microcosm that describes a society at the hardest end of a globalized capitalism.

    Festivals

    2019 awards a.o.
    Winner Cinematic Vision Award CIFF
    Best Film of the International Competition KINENOVA FF
    PEACE FILM AWARD - IFF Osnabrück
    Best International Documentary - Doc Los Angeles

    2019 festivals a.o.
    DOK.fest Munich world premiere
    Semaine de la Critique Locarno FF
    Dokfest Kassel
    FF Bremen

    2020
    LOLA@Berlinale — shortlisted for DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS [German FilmAward]
    26 Slamdance Film Festival
    CPH:DOX
    Golden Lynx for Best Documentary Feature — FEST - Festival for New Directors, Portugal
    Special Jury Prize — Bushwick IFF NYC
    Best Feature Documentary — Indie Street Days, Jew Jersey

    2021
    March 24, Producer and Director gives back the
    Deutscher Dokumentarfilmpreis — German Documentary Award 2020

    Director’s Statement

    The impulse for the film was a night-drive to my hometown after spending years abroad. Passing the caravans, they jumped at me as a grotesque picture of a microcosmos at the edge of society. So I decided to make a film about it, giving these women a voice. Throughout the course of three years, we tried to capture in atmospheric images and scenes what lies hidden in the dark abyss of these roads, aiming to convey the feeling what its like to live/work/dream/getting abused in this loneliness, depicted from the angle of our brave and captivating protagonists.