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
Editing
Brendan Kruse
DOP
Ron Ramirez, Virginie Saint Martin
Production
Elkan Spiller
Script
Elkan Spiller
Sound Design
Alex Davidson
Festivals
Berlinale - Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Germany
shnit worldwide shortsfestival
Boulder International Film Festival, USA
Encounters International Short Film Festival, Bristol, United Kingdom
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany
Europäisches Kurzfilmfestival Köln UNLIMITED, Germany
LIDF - London International Documentary Festival, United Kingdom
FILMZ – FESTIVAL DES DEUTSCHEN KINOS, Mainz, Germany
Filmfestival Münster, Germany
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
San Francisco IndieFest, 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