Ida lives on a ship with her crew of five men. In Marseille her attention is caught by the secretive male world of the French Foreign Legion and she decides to follow its traces across the Mediterranean. As Ida and her crew sail via Corsica to the historical headquarters of the Legion in Algeria, boundaries and certainties blur while life at sea produces a special kind of mutual understanding.

WHO

starring ANGELIKI PAPOULIA, VLADIMIR VULEVIC, FERHAT MOUHALI, GUSTAVO DE MATTOS JAHN, MAURO SOARES, STEFFEN DANEK, INGO MARTENS, NINA VILLANOVA and DENIS LAVANT

script & direction & camera HELENA WITTMANN composition and sound design NIKA SON assistant director LUISE DONSCHEN production and costume design ANNA OSTBY dramaturgical advice BIRGIT GLOMBITZA camera assistants TIM LIEBE & GUSTAVO DE MATTOS JAHN underwater images KEVIN SEMPE microscopic images VILIUS MACHIULSKIS color grading and mastering TIM LIEBE title design HANZER LICCINI casting Marseille and production management JULIE AGUTTES production FRANK SCHEUFFELE, KARSTEN KRAUSE & JULIA CÖLLEN (FÜNFERFILM) coproduction CHRISTOPHE BOUFFIL, FRED PREMEL, JULIE AGUTTES (TITA PRODUCTION / France)

funded by MOIN FILMFÖRDERUNG HAMBURG SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, DIE BEAUFTRAGTE DER BUNDESREGIERUNG FÜR KULTUR UND MEDIEN, FFA FILMFÖRDERANSTALT, REGION PROVENCE-ALPES-CÔTE D'AZUR en partenariat avec le CNC presentation supported by GERMAN FILMS selected for FILMS AFTER TOMORROW, INDUSTRY VILLAGE LES ARCS FILM FESTIVAL, FIDlab MARSEILLE and FIRST CUT LAB

Feature
106 minutes | Germany, France 2022

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SCREENINGS

75th Locarno Film Festival (world premiere), Switzerland 2022
Bucharest Experimental Film Festival, Romania 2022
Actoral / Festival Kino Visions Marseille, France 2022
Filmfest Hamburg, Germany 2022
New York Film Festival, United States 2022
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal, Canada 2022
Filmfest Gent, Belgium 2022
Viennale, Austria 2022
AFIFEST, United States 2022
Mar del Plata, Argentina 2022
Film Fest Gent, Belgium 2022
Seville Festival, Spain 2022
Laceno d'Oro Int. Film Festival, Italy 2022
Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden 2023
Istanbul Film Festival, Turkey 2023
Jeonju IFF, Korea 2023
FICUNAM, México 2023
New Horizons IFF, Poland 2023
Helsinki Int. Film Festival, Finnland 2023
Eurocine Festival, Ecuador 2023
Scanorama, Lithuania 2023