Mama, L'Chaim!
MAMA, TO LIFE!

film type documentary film Production Country Germany production year 2009 runtime 5'00 colour
screening format DigiBeta aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo languages Englisch, Deutsch Subtitles Englisch, Deutsch

Chaim (62) lives with his mother (95), a concentration camp survivor, in a retirement home. Both are lively, funny characters; We follow the pain of the Holocaust and the laughter of their everyday existence. The film takes a non-judgemental look at the way in which the Holocaust continues to affect the lives of the children of survivors.

director Elkan Spiller Schnitt / Editing Brendan Kruse Bildgestaltung / DOP Ron Ramirez, Virginie Saint Martin Produktion / Production Elkan Spiller Drehbuch / Script Elkan Spiller Tongestaltung / Sound Design Alex Davidson
Festivals
Berlinale - Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Germany
SHNIT Kurzfilmfestival, Bern, Switzerland
Boulder International Film Festival, USA
Encounters International Short Film Festival, Bristol, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany
Europäisches Kurzfilmfestival Köln UNLIMITED, Germany
LIDF - London International Documentary Festival, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
FILMZ - Festival des deutschen Kinos, Mainz, Germany
Filmfestival Münster, Germany
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
San Francisco International Festival of Short Films, USA
DC Shorts Film Festival, Washington, USA
Jewish Eye - World Jewish Film Festival, Ashkelon, Israel
cellu l’art Kurzfilmfestival Jena, Germany
Production
  • Elkan Spiller
  • Dürener Str. 408
  • 50935 Köln
  • +31 63 4461149
  • http://www.mamatolife.blogspot.com
Distribution
  • MAGNETFILM
  • Georg Gruber
  • Torstr. 154
  • 10115 Berlin
  • +49 30 24628156
  • http://www.magnetfilm.de
Sales
  • MAGNETFILM
  • Georg Gruber
  • Torstr. 154
  • 10115 Berlin
  • +49 30 24628156
  • http://www.magnetfilm.de

Elkan Spiller

1992 MA thesis on anti-Semitism in German television at the University of Arts in Berlin;
since then working as a freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker for German broadcasters