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Nacht Grenze Morgen
Two at the border

film type documentary film Production Country Germany production year 2013 runtime 30'00 colour Color
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.33:1 (4:3) sound format Dolby A original-language Arabic, Farsi, Turkish subtitles English, French

Two young men smuggle refugees into Europe. While the Turkish border is still porous, Greece barricades its borders with European support. Thermographic cameras, fences, coastguard ships. The guys pack, they move, sometimes they make it, sometimes they fail. The rent was due last week.

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director Felicitas Sonvilla, Tuna Kaptan Original Score Dmitri Grigoriev Editing Felicitas Sonvilla, Tuna Kaptan, Ulrike Tortora Script Felicitas Sonvilla, Tuna Kaptan DOP Tim Kuhn Production Ferdinand Freising (HFF München) film school Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
Festivals
Duisburger Filmwoche, Germany
IDFA International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands
Production
  • Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
  • Ferdinand Freising
  • Bernd-Eichinger-Platz 1
  • 80333 München
  • +49 89 689574030
  • http://www.hff-muc.de
Distribution
  • Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
  • Ferdinand Freising
  • Bernd-Eichinger-Platz 1
  • 80333 München
  • +49 89 689574030
  • http://www.hff-muc.de
Sales
  • Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
  • Ferdinand Freising
  • Bernd-Eichinger-Platz 1
  • 80333 München
  • +49 89 689574030
  • http://www.hff-muc.de
School
  • Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
  • Bernd-Eichinger-Platz 1
  • 80333 München
  • Germany
  • http://www.hff-muc.de

Felicitas Sonvilla

Born 1988 in Austria;
BA in film studies from the Vienna University in 2010;
since 2010 studies documentary film directing at the University of Television and Film Munich;
2013 co-founder of the film collective Storymotel

Filmography
2011 Raumstation

Tuna Kaptan

Tuna Kaptan was born in Munich in 1985. He studied Romance languages, theater, and media studies, and later studied documentary film directing in Buenos Aires and at the HFF Munich. His films have been screened at IDFA and DOK Leipzig. He works as a director, screenwriter, and producer.

Filmography
2011 Bordo Mavi
2012 Mr. Siebzehnrübl
2013 Nacht Grenze Morgen
2014 Armada Bizerta
2016 Subsuelo
2017 Schildkröten Panzer
2019 Hörst du, Mutter?
2023 Rohbau
2025 Echt Friends
2025 Ishaq

Portrait of Tuna Kaptan