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Suspect (2008 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Suspect' is a 2008 short film. It was the final graduation project of director Felix Hassenfratz
at the Internationale Filmschule Kln. The story, inspired by true events and based on the documentary 'The Baker Did It,' is set in a southern German province with the Badisch dialect. The film is a co-production with the broadcast stations SWR and Arte, and supported by a German film fund. Despite its regional emphasis, 'Suspect' is a universal story, focused on human behaviour, a story about love in the face of doubt.
Synopsis
What to do and whom to believe when you live in a small village and your husband, the village baker, is the suspect in an unsolved murder? Hes not from the village and your mother still doesn't accept his taking over the family business after your father's death. You also find a shirt stained with blood and a gun kept in a locked cabinet, and he insists hes innocent. Can love overcome doubt?
Festivals and screenings
Germany (all 2008)
Film Festival Max Ophls Preis[https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20081120130005/www.max-ophuels-preis.de/programm/reihen/sprint Filmfestival Max-Ophls-Preis: Der Verdacht]
Munich International Film Festival
24. Int. Berlin Film Festival Interfilm
Festival of German Cinema[http://www.filmz-mainz.de/lange-kurze/ Festival des dt. Kinos: Der Verdacht]
Landshut Short Film Festival (Won an award)
Sehschte int. student film festival Potsdam
International Filmfest Emden
Film Festival Shorts At Moonlight
Wendland Shorts (Won an award)
New Talents Biennale Cologne
Int. Film Festival Passau
Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche
International (all 2008)
St. Petersburg White Nights Festival
32. Montreal World Film Festival
Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films
Encounters Short Film Festival, Bristol
Foyle Int. Film Festival, Ireland
Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax
Buenos Aires Film Festival
Goethe Institute Paris selection of contemporary German cinema
Zagreb Film Festival
Awards
*2007: The film rating agency FBW labeled the movie "of special merit"[http://www.fbw-filme.de/pdw/Erscheinungsjahr%202007/Verdacht/verdacht.htm film entry at the film rating agency in german]
*2007: Short film of the month German film rating agency
*2008: BMW short film prize[http://www.landshuter-kurzfilmfestival.de/ Landshut film festival - in German]
*2008: Jury prize, Wendland Shorts
*2008: Best Screenplay Studio Hamburg Newcomer AwardDie Welt in German: [https://www.welt.de/berlin/article1890436/Die_Talente_des_jungen_Films_raeumen_ab_.html Die Talente des jungen Films rumen ab], vom 11. April 2008, gefunden am 11. April 2008
References
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