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A HANDFUL OF WATER

By Jakob ZAPF

NEOPOL FILM - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2020


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Hofer Filmtage 2020
Nominated for Hofer Goldpreis
Cinequest 2021
Nominated for Global Landscapes Award
Catalina 2021
Official Selection
Firenze 2021
Winner Best Director
Emden 2021
Nominated for DGB Filmpreis & Bernhard Wicki Filmpreis
Ludwigshafen 2021
Nominated for Best Feature
Madrid 2021
Winner Talented New Director
Garden Route 2021
Official Selection
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    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Drama, First film, Social issues
    • Countries
    • GERMANY, UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • GERMAN, ARABIC
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 94 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jakob ZAPF
    • Writer(s)
    • Marcus SEIBERT, Ashu B.A., Jakob ZAPF
    • Producer(s)
    • Tonio KELLNER (Neopol Film), Jakob ZAPF (Neopol Film), Andrea SIMML (Neopol Film)
    • Synopsis
    • Konrad, 85, portrayed by Jürgen Prochnow, is mostly in a grumpy mood. His wife died recently and his only daughter, Ingrid, did not just stay childless, she now even wants to marry her girlfriend. Konrad can’t help himself, he just doesn’t like it.

      The young girl Thurba, 12, has very different problems. She jumps from a balcony on the second floor to avoid deportation as a Dublin-Case. Interim goal achieved: Family seperated, deportation foiled. But now she is alone on the streets, in October...

      One night, Konrad hears something in his basemen, arms himself with a nail gun and fires into the darkness. He shoots little Thurba, who cries out in pain. Konrad is completely jumbled, this can’t be happening! But the girl moves him, whether he wants to or not.

      Thurba is from Yemen and since 2017, one year after fleeing the war with her mother and two baby-brothers, stranded in Germany. The family is supposed to be send back to Bulgaria, where they were first granted refuge, but actually they want to go to London, where Thurba’s uncle lives.

      So Thurba suggests a deal to old Konrad...
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