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Abwesend
Absent

film type fiction Production Country Germany production year 2014 runtime 13'00 colour
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo languages Deutsch Subtitles Englisch
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo languages Deutsch Subtitles Englisch

Winter in a big city. Klara, a 30-year old woman, arrives home with a random guy that she has just met. Both are drunk, they are giggling, having fun. But there is someone else in the apartment: Anton (9) catches them having sex. The next morning, Anton is gone.

director Eliza Petkova Besetzung / Cast Claudia Balko, Katrin Sommer, Marton Peter Nagy, Mike Sommer, Werner Zwosta Schnitt / Editing Eliza Petkova, Hannes Marget Drehbuch / Script Eliza Petkova Tongestaltung / Sound Design Hannes Marget Bildgestaltung / DOP Constanze Schmitt Produktion / Production Cécile Tollu-Polonowski, Tim Oliver Schultz film school Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
Festivals
2015 International Film Festival TOFIFEST Torun, Poland
2015 Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival, Spain
2015 Festival de Cannes - Internationale Filmfestspiele von Cannes, France
Production
  • Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
  • Anna Laura Wenzel
  • Potsdamer Str. 2
  • 10785 Berlin
  • +49 30 25759152
  • http://www.dffb.de
Distribution
  • Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
  • Anna Laura Wenzel
  • Potsdamer Str. 2
  • 10785 Berlin
  • +49 30 25759152
  • http://www.dffb.de
Sales
  • Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
  • Anna Laura Wenzel
  • Potsdamer Str. 2
  • 10785 Berlin
  • +49 30 25759152
  • http://www.dffb.de
School
  • Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
  • Potsdamer Str. 2
  • 10785 Berlin
  • http://www.dffb.de

Eliza Petkova

Born 1983 in Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria);
moved to Germany after graduating High School in Bulgaria;
after studying philosophy and modern Japanese in Düsseldorf, she moved to Berlin and began working as a documentary filmmaker;
since 2011 she has been studying directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (DFFB)

Filmography
2010 STILLE POST
2011 WILLKOMMEN ZUHAUSE
2012 IM KREIS
2013 MEIN SOHN
2014 ZUR RECHTEN ZEIT
2014 ABWESEND
2015 NABELSCHNUR (Working Title)
2016 ZHALEIKA (long feature)