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ANOTHER REALITY

( 2019 )
Feature Documentary Competition |
 
Germany
,
Switzerland
 |
 German, Arabic, Farsi |
 98 min

About the film

In the big cities of Germany, members of families that live outside of the law exist in a parallel world. In this documentary film, young men with well-kept beards, pumped muscles and big cars allow the viewers into their homes, sharing their dreams with the world. To the rhythms of gangsta rap and a new kind of integration, life here may be stranger than fiction. Another Reality tells the story of young people who question themselves and their reality of life.

Director

Noël Dernesch, Olli Waldhauer

Producer

Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer

Production Company

Elemag Pictures

Screenplay

Noël Dernesch, Olli Waldhauer, Jörg Offer, Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer

Cinematography

Friede Clausz

Editing

Gesa Jäger

Sound

Guido Keller

Cast

Contacts

Producer

Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer

Production Company

Elemag Pictures

Screenplay

Noël Dernesch, Olli Waldhauer, Jörg Offer, Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer

Cinematography

Friede Clausz

Editing

Gesa Jäger

Sound

Guido Keller

Cast

Contacts

More About Film

Berlin, Essen, Oberhausen, it doesn’t matter where in Germany – in the shadows of metropolitan areas, right underneath the public control system gangs and family-clans control whole urban districts in Germany. They earn their money with procuration, drug dealing and pressing protection money. Most of them live their life as a German imitation of American Hip Hop Gangsters and are really influenced by music, it isn’t just their daily grind but also their definition of honor and morals. What drives young people in Germany towards organized crime? How can it happen that teens who are born and grow up here in Germany have no need for affiliation and no obligation to the general system and way of life but instead withdraw into an isolated mini-society? Did we loose any connection to each other or didn`t we ever had one? Another Reality is a character-driven documentary which provides a real insight into the life in criminal gangs in Germany, meeting our young protagonists by heart and letting them show us their dreams, their present and their future.

Producer

Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer

Production Company

Elemag Pictures

Screenplay

Noël Dernesch, Olli Waldhauer, Jörg Offer, Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer

Cinematography

Friede Clausz

Editing

Gesa Jäger

Sound

Guido Keller

More About Film

Berlin, Essen, Oberhausen, it doesn't matter where in Germany – in the shadows of metropolitan areas, right underneath the public control system gangs and family-clans control whole urban districts in Germany. They earn their money with procuration, drug dealing and pressing protection money. Most of them live their life as a German imitation of American Hip Hop Gangsters and are really influenced by music, it isn't just their daily grind but also their definition of honor and morals. What drives young people in Germany towards organized crime? How can it happen that teens who are born and grow up here in Germany have no need for affiliation and no obligation to the general system and way of life but instead withdraw into an isolated mini-society? Did we loose any connection to each other or didn`t we ever had one? Another Reality is a character-driven documentary which provides a real insight into the life in criminal gangs in Germany, meeting our young protagonists by heart and letting them show us their dreams, their present and their future.