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GIRAFFEN MACHEN ES NICHT ANDERS

GIRAFFES DON'T DO IT ANY DIFFERENTLY

By Walo DEUBER

Family - Completed 2017

Thanks to more than 300 letters, the author moves throughout Africa with his long-deceased father and lets himself be moved by him.

Zurich FF 2017

Special Screenings

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Family, Documentary
- Countries
- SWITZERLAND
- Languages
- SWISS-GERMAN, GERMAN, ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 80 mn
- Director(s)
- Walo DEUBER
- Writer(s)
- Max LAESSER
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-6449-0000-E-0000-0000-W
- Producer(s)
- Rose-Marie SCHNEIDER (Doc Productions GmbH)
- Synopsis
- More than 300 letters sent from Africa surface unexpectedly, and a story comes back to life after more than sixty years of oblivion. The challenge: How to deal with such a narrative after so many years? The author decides to pursue the long-since deceased letter writer in Africa and get a picture of the one whose image had completely faded: his father, who, when the author was six years old, had left him in the lurch.
  Following the course of the letters, the author travels with his father on a long journey from Zambia to Namibia and lets himself to be moved by him and his story (giraffes don’t do it any differently).
  As a first-person narrator, he projects his own image, his own narrative of the story of a father, who is hardly remembered anymore – as the parable of "where do I come from, who am I?" During the film he passes this story on to his adoptive daughter, whose roots go back to Africa – just like those of his father, who was born as the son of a missionary.