IF TREES CARRY DOLLS

Genre
Tragedy Short film
Script
Christoph von Zastrow
Director
Ismail Sahin

Casting
Uwe Bünker (BVC)
Cast
Chanel Addae, Luna Schaller,
Cynthia Micas, Thelma Buabeng,
Dayan T. Kodua, David Wurawa,
Bernard Mayo

DoP
Andrés Lizana Prado
Production design
Merlin Ortner
Costume desing
RUDI
Makeup Artist
Eva Dieckhoff
Sound
Marko Weichler (BVfT)
Editting
Thomas Stange
Sounddesign
Jan-Timo Sonnemann
Soundmix
Moritz Hoffmeister
Music
Christoph Rinnert

Producers: Holger Sorg, Ismail Sahin
1. AD: Tim Wustrack
Editorship: Dr. Claudia Gladziejewski
In Co-Production with Bayerischen Rundfunk BR

Subsidy
FilmFernsehFonds Bayern FFF,
Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg MBB,
Filmförderungsanstalt FFA

Synopsis:
Since her birth seven years ago Nabila has lived simultaneously in two different worlds. On the one hand, she is the daughter of African immigrants and therefore at home with their cultural values. On the other hand, she has never visited the African continent. She uses German as her preferred language. And her best friend is a German Turkish girl. In spite of this, she looks forward gladly to her first visit to her family's native country. They have promised her a big party with many presents. She does not foresee that her parents have planned this journey in order to confirm her supposed cultural identity by way of the thousand-year old, utterly revolting and totally irreversible, ritual.

Awards:

1. Price "best Cinematography" Rhode Island International Film Festival USA 2010
Awarded with the highest mark "exceptionally valuable" from the FBW Wiesbaden, Germany´s official board of film classification 2010
"Short of the month" awarded from the Germany´s official board of film classification 2010
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Shortfilm-Award Germany 2011
2. Price Shortcompetition International Filmweekend Würzburg Germany 2011
Award of AV Mediacenter "best Short" Thalmässing Shortfest Germany 2011
"Kid’s Land Archive Award" Kavalan International Short Film Festival Taiwan 2011