WANJA

By Carolina HELLSGÅRD

NOISE FILM & TV - as PROMO

Drama - Completed 2015


Festivals
& Awards

BERLIN 2015
Perspektive
Montréal World FF 2015
Focus on World Cinema
Valletta Film Festival 2015
Competition, Best Screenplay Award
Biberach 2015
Compettion, Best Debut Film
Cork 2015
Competition
Gothenburg 2015
Swedish Premiers
Sao Paulo IFF 2015
Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Languages
    • GERMAN
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 87 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Carolina HELLSGÅRD
    • Writer(s)
    • Carolina HELLSGÅRD
    • Producer(s)
    • Johanna AUST (Flickfilm GbR)
    • Synopsis
    • The former bank robber Wanja is released from a long prison sentence. As her feelings of loneliness escalate, Wanja sets out to find work and hereby a new identity.
      Against all odds she lands an internship at a horse race track. In the stable she gets to know the troubled teenager Emma, and a tentative friendship develops between the two women. When Emma slips deeper into her own drug abuse, Wanja decides to rescue her.