AMATEURS
Filmfest 2018
OT: AMATÖRER
Sweden 2018
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: Swedish)
German Premiere
Director: Gabriela Pichler
Section: International Independents
Nothing ever seems to happen in the small town of Lafors — until word arrives that a German retailer, Superbilly, is considering setting up shop there. A promotional film, ideally a super-cheap one, should help sway the decision. Teenagers Aida and Dana are convinced of their idea to film their everyday lives with their smartphones. But when a sponsor is prepared to finance a leaked TV commercial, attitudes and imagery collide shortly before the Superbillys are due to show up.
Cast: Zahraa Aldoujaili, Yara Ebrahim Aliadotter, Fredrik Dahl
Credits
Screenplay: Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Gabriela Pichler
Director of Photography: Johan Lundborg
Film Editor: Johan Lundborg, Andreas Nilsson, Gabriela Pichler
Composer: Rasmus Thord
Production Designer: Ellen Oseng
Costume Design: Sandra Woltersdorf
Sound: Jess Wolfsberg
Producer: Anna-Maria Kantarius
Production Company: Garagefilm International
Co-Producer: Tomas Eskilsson
World Sales: Level K
Director: Gabriela Pichler
biography
Born in Sweden in 1980, Gabriela Pichler studied film at the University of Gothenburg. Her short film SCRATCHES received the Guldbagge, a Swedish film award, in 2010. Pichler received two such awards for her first feature-length film, EAT, SLEEP, DIE (2012), which was also honored at the Venice Film Festival.
