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When We Leave 
Directed by Feo Aladag Produced by Feo Aladag Written by Feo Aladag Starring Sibel Kekilli Cinematography Judith Kaufmann Editing by Andrea Mertens Release date(s) 13 February 2010 (Berlinale)
11 March 2010Running time 119 minutes Country Germany Language German/Turkish When We Leave (German: Die Fremde) is a 2010 German drama film, produced, written and directed by Feo Aladag, which highlights the problem of honour killings by depicting the drama of a Turkish family living in Germany.
Contents
Cast
- Sibel Kekilli - Umay
- Nizam Schiller - Cem
- Derya Alabora - Halyme
- Settar Tanriogen - Kader
- Tamer Yigit - Mehmet
- Serhad Can - Acar
- Almila Bagriacik - Rana
- Florian Lukas - Stipe
- Nursel Köse - Gül
- Alwara Höfels - Atife
- Ufuk Bayraktar - Kemal
- Blanca Apilánez - Carmen
- Rosa Enskat - Manuela
Production
Feo Aladag stated; I made Die Fremde because I believe we live in a multicultural society which can no longer rest on promoting consensus but must rather find new ways in dealing with arising divergence.
Awards
The film won Best Narrative Feature at the 9th Tribeca Film Festival, Best Film at the 37th Ghent Film Festival in Belgium, the European Parliament's Lux Prize, and was selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards,[1][2][3][4] but it didn't make the final shortlist.[5]
Internationally, the film has won the following awards:[6]
- 60th German Film Awards, Germany 2010
- Best Leading Actress, Sibel Kekilli
- Best Film – Lola In Bronze
- 60th Berlin International Film Festival, Germany 2010
- Europa Cinema Label Award
- 9th Tribeca Film Festival, USA 2010[7]
- Best Actress, Sibel Kekilli
- Best Film, World Narrative Feature Competition
- LUX Film Prize 2010, Film Prize Of The European Parliament, Europe 2010
- Best European Film
- New Faces Award, Germany 2010
- Best Debutfilm, Feo Aladag
- 20th German Camera Prize, Germany 2010
- Best Camera, Judith Kaufmann, Bvk
- 15th German/Turkish Film Festival Nuremberg, Germany 2010
- Best Actress, Sibel Kekilli
- 32nd Créteil Womens Film Festival, France 2010
- Best Film – Audience Award
- 1st Recklinghausen Film Festival, Germany 2010
- Best Film
- Bernhard Wicki Film Prize, Germany 2010
- German Cinema Award For Peace, Sibel Kekilli For When We Leave
- 20th Cologne Conference, Germany 2010
- German Casting Award 2010, Ulrike Mueller
- 11th Video Champions Awards, Germany 2010
- Video Champion Artist Award, Sibel Kekilli For When We Leave
- 11th Calgary International Film Festival, Canada 2010
- Best International Feature
- 37th Flanders International Film Festival Ghent, Belgium 2010
- Port Of Ghent Audience Award Best Film
- 39th Festival Du Nouveau Cinéma De Montréal, Canada 2010
- Best Actress, Sibel Kekilli
- 23rd Panorama Of European Cinema In Athen, Greece 2010
- Best Film - International Jury Award
- 34th São Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil 2010
- Best Film
- Defa Foundation, Germany 2010
- Award To Support Artistic Talent, Feo Aladag
- 25th Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, Usa 2010
- Best Film
- 10th International Film Festival Marrakech, Morocco 2010
- Best Performance For The Entire Cast Award
- 21st Diva - German Entertainment Award 2011, Germany 2011
- Jury Award - Best Art Direction Of The Year 2010, Feo Aladag
- 22rd Premiers Plans Film Festival In Angers, France 2011
- European First Feature Films - Audience Award
- 18th Victoria Film Festival, Canada 2011
- Best Feature
- German Film Critics Awards 2010, Germany 2011
- Best Film - Feo Aladag
- Best Debut Film - Feo Aladag
- Best Screenplay - Feo Aladag
- Best Actress - Sibel Kekilli
- Best Cinematography - Judith Kaufmann
- Best Editing - Andrea Mertens
- Best Score - Max Richter Und Stéphane Moucha
- Die Goldene Zwiebel Esslingen 2010, Germany 2011
- Best Debut - Feo Aladag
- Best Leading Actress - Sibel Kekilli
See also
- List of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
- ^ "'When We Leave' is German Oscar submission". hollywoodreporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/world/news/e3ie4f24b85cbd4c8113d5121a75e81562f. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
- ^ "European Parliament Cinema Prize goes to Turkish film 'Die Fremde'". Hürriyet Daily News. 2010-11-25. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=european-parliament-cinema-prize-goes-to-die-fremde-2010-11-24. Retrieved 2010-11-26.
- ^ "EP cinema prize goes to 'Die Fremde'". Cumhuriyet. 2010-11-25. http://www.cumhuriyet.com/?hn=193700. Retrieved 2010-11-26.
- ^ "Film starring Kekilli wins 2010 Lux Prize". Today's Zaman. 2010-11-26. http://www.todayszaman.com/news-227940-film-starring-kekilli-wins-2010-lux-prize.html. Retrieved 2010-11-26.
- ^ "9 Foreign Language Films Continue to Oscar Race". oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2011/20110119.html. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
- ^ "When We Leave: Awards and Nominations". independent-artists-filmproduktion. http://www.independent-artists-filmproduktion.de/en/features/diefremde/prices. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
- ^ "2010 Tribeca Film Festival Award Winners". tribecafilm.com. http://www.tribecafilm.com/festival/features/2010_Tribeca_Film_Festival_Award_Winners.html. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
External links
Categories:- 2010 films
- German films
- German-language films
- Films set in Berlin
- Honor killing
- 2010s drama films
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