TRAILER
WHEN WE LEAVE is commercially available on DVD and Blu-ray and digital via iTunes and Amazon.
Feature Film Bonus Material
:
– Featurette German Film Awards 2010
– Deleted Scenes
– Interviews with Sibel Kekilli and Feo Aladag
– Photo Gallery
– Original Trailer
– Subtitles for the hearing impaired
– English subtitles
Audio: German | Dolby Digital 5.1 (on Blu-ray: DTS-HD Master Audio)
Picture: 16:9 (2,35:1) (on Blu-ray: 1080p/24)
Length: Feature Film: 114 min.
Bonus Material: approx. 30 min. (Blu-ray: approx. 62 min.)
MPAA: Parental Guidance Suggested
Exclusive on Blu-ray: “Terre des Femmes“ Documentary by Rainer Fromm about girls and women in Germany with a migrant background, whose families live according to traditional values.
SYNOPSIS
What would you sacrifice for your family’s love? Your values? Your freedom? Your life?.
German‐born Umay flees her oppressive marriage in Istanbul, taking her young son Cem with her. She hopes to find a better life with her family in Berlin, but her unexpected arrival creates intense conflict. Her family is trapped in their conventions, torn between their love for her and the traditional values of their community. Ultimately they decide to return Cem to his father in Turkey. To keep her son, Umay is forced to move again. She finds the inner strength to build a new life for herself and Cem, but her need for her family’s love drives her to a series of ill‐fated attempts at reconciliation. What Umay doesn’t realize is just how deep the wounds are and how dangerous her struggle for self‐determination has become…
CAST
Umay
Cem
Halime
Kader
Mehmet
Acar
SIBEL KEKILLI
NIZAM SCHILLER
DERYA ALABORA
SETTAR TANRIÖGEN
TAMER YIGIT
SERHAD CAN
Rana
Stipe
Gül
Atife
Kemal
Carmen
ALMILA BAGRIACIK
FLORIAN LUKAS
NURSEL KÖSE
ALWARA HÖFELS
UFUK BAYRAKTAR
BLANCA APILÁNEZ
Umay
SIBEL KEKILLI
Cem
NIZAM SCHILLER
Halime
DERYA ALABORA
Kader
SETTAR TANRIÖGEN
Mehmet
TAMER YIGIT
Acar
SERHAD CAN
Rana
ALMILA BAGRIACIK
Stipe
FLORIAN LUKAS
Gül
NURSEL KÖSE
Atife
ALWARA HÖFELS
Kemal
UFUK BAYRAKTAR
Carmen
BLANCA APILÁNEZ
CREW
Produced, written & directed by
Director of Photography
Production Design
Costume Design
Make-up
Maskenbild
Sound Mixer
Editor
Score
FEO ALADAG
JUDITH KAUFMANN
SILKE BUHR
GIOIA RASPÉ
MONIKA MÜNNICH
MINA GHORAISHI
MAX THOMAS MEINDL
ANDREA MERTENS
MAX RICHTER
Score
Sound Design
Gaffer
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Production Manager
Line Producer
Commissioning Editor
Commissioning Editor
Commissioning Editor
STÉPHANE MOUCHA
GUIDO ZETTIER
TIMM BRÜCKNER
STEFAN KORTE
MILANKA COMFORT
KARSTEN AURICH
KATJA DE BOCK
DARIA MOHEB ZANDI
ANDREAS SCHREITMÜLLER
Produced, written & directed by
FEO ALADAG
Director of Photography
JUDITH KAUFMANN
Production Design
SILKE BUHR
Costume Design
GIOIA RASPÉ
Make-up
MONIKA MÜNNICH
MINA GHORAISHI
Sound Mixer
MAX THOMAS MEINDL
Editor
ANDREA MERTENS
Score
MAX RICHTER
STÉPHANE MOUCHA
Sound Design
GUIDO ZETTIER
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
STEFAN KORTE
Gaffer
TIMM BRÜCKNER
Production Manager
MILANKA COMFORT
Line Producer
KARSTEN AURICH
Commissioning Editor
KATJA DE BOCK
DARIA MOHEB ZANDI
ANDREAS SCHREITMÜLLER
With support from
GERMAN FEDERAL FILM FUND
FILMFÖRDERUNGSANSTALT FFA
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONER FOR CULTURE AND MEDIA BKM
MEDIENBOARD BERLIN-BRANDENBURG
FILM- UND MEDIENSTIFTUNG NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA
BOARD OF TRUSTEES YOUNG GERMAN FILM
Produced by
INDEPENDENT ARTISTS
Co-produced by
WESTDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK
RUNDFUNK BERLIN-BRANDENBURG
ARTE
STILLS
MAKING-OF
NOMINATIONS & FESTIVALS
BEST ACTRESS, Sibel Kekilli
BEST FILM – LOLA in Bronze
60th Berlin International Film Festival, Germany 2010
European Cinema Label Award
9th Tribeca Film Festival, USA 2010
BEST ACTRESS, Sibel Kekilli
BEST FILM in World Narrative Feature Competition
LUX Film Prize 2010, Film Prize of the European Parliament, Europe 2010
BEST EUROPEAN FILM
New Faces Award, Germany 2010
BEST DEBUT, Feo Aladag
32nd Créteil Womens Film Festival, France 2010
BEST FILM – AUDIENCE AWARD
1st Recklinghausen Film Festival, Germany 2010
BEST FILM
11th Calgary International Film Festival, Canada 2010
BEST INTERNATIONALER FEATURE FILM
37th Flanders International Film Festival Ghent, Belgium 2010
AUDIENCE AWARD – Port of Ghent
BEST FILM
23rd Panorama of European Cinema Athens, Greece 2010
BEST FILM – INTERNATIONAL JURY AWARD
34th São Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil 2010
BEST FILM – INTERNATIONAL JURY AWARD
DEFA Foundation, Germany 2010
AWARD TO SUPPORT ARTISTIC TALENT, Feo Aladag
25th Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, USA 2010
BEST FILM
10th International Film Festival Marrakech, Morocco 2010
BEST PERFORMANCE FOR THE ENTIRE CAST AWARD
21st DIVA – German Entertainment Prize 2011, Germany 2011
JURY AWARD – Best Art Direction of the year 2010, Feo Aladag
22nd Premiers Plans Film Festival in Angers, France 2011
EUROPEAN FIRST FEATURE FILMS – AUDIENCE AWARD
17th Victoria Film Festival, Canada 2010
BEST FILM
German Film Critics Award 2010, Germany 2011
BEST FILM Feo Aladag
, BEST DEBUT FILM Feo Aladag, BEST SCREENPLAY Feo Aladag, BEST ACTRESS Sibel Kekilli
, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Judith Kaufmann, BEST EDITING Andrea Mertens, BEST SCORE Max Richter and Stéphane Moucha
20th German Camera Prize, Germany 2010
BEST CAMERA, Judith Kaufmann, bvk
39th Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal, Canada 2010
BEST ACTRESS, Sibel Kekilli
15th Festival Turkey/Germany Nuremberg, Germany 2010
BEST ACTRESS, Sibel Kekilli
Bernhard Wicki Film Prize, Germany 2010
GERMAN CINEMA AWARD FOR PEACE, Sibel Kekilli
20th Cologne Conference, Germany 2010
GERMAN CASTING PRIZE 2010, Ulrike Müller
11th Video Champion, Germany 2010
VIDEO CHAMPION ARTIST AWARD, Sibel Kekilli
Die Goldene Zwiebel Esslingen 2010, Germany 2011
BEST DEBUT, Feo Aladag
BEST ACTRESS, Sibel Kekilli
1st German Directors Award METROPOLIS 2011, Germany 2011
BEST DIRECTOR (JUNIOR SECTION), Feo Aladag
7th Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema, Russia 2011
SPECIAL AWARD „For an impressive display of conflict between community traditions and values of a free society“ (by „Slon“ Russian Guild of Film Critics)
BEST ACTRESS, Sibel Kekilli
5th Film Festival of Women in Salé, Morocco 2011
LE GRAND PRIX DU FESTIVAL DE SALÉ (Best Film)
LE PRIX DU SCÉNARIO (Best Screenplay), Feo Aladag
LE PRIX DE L´INTERPRÉTATION FÉMININE (Best Female Actress), Sibel Kekilli
Erasmus EuroMedia Awards 2011, Europe 2011
MEDAL OF EXCELLENCE FOR FICTIONAL PRODUCTION
SEAL FOR QUALITY
10th International Images Film Festival for Women in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 2011
BEST ACTRESS, Sibel Kekilli
Prix CinéFemme 2011, Belgium 2011
GRAND PRIX
4th Bangalore International Film Festival, India 2011
Silver Berunda – BEST DIRECTOR, Feo Aladag
1st Panazorean International Film Festival, Portugal 2012
GRAND PRIZE
BEST SCREENPLAY – Nomination for Feo Aladag
BEST DIRECTOR – Nomination for Feo Aladag
BEST FILM – Nomination & Award for Feo Aladag, Züli Aladag
BEST LEADING ACTRESS– Nomination & Award for Sibel Kekilli
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – Nomination for Settar Tanriögen
BEST EDITING – Nomination for Andrea Mertens, bfs
23rd European Film Awards, Europe 2010
BEST EUROPEAN ACTRESS, Sibel Kekilli
EUROPEAN DISCOVERY – Prix FIPRESCI of the European Film Academy, Feo Aladag
20th German Camera Prize, Germany 2010
BEST EDITING – Nomination for Andrea Mertens, bfs
11th Video Champion, Germany 2010
VIDEO CHAMPION AWARD – Blu-ray WHEN WE LEAVE in the category “German Film”
Film+10 Editing Award, Germany 2010
Prenomination for BEST EDITED FEATURE, Andrea Mertens
Die Goldene Zwiebel Esslingen, Germany 2011
BEST FILM
BEST ACTRESS, Settar Tanriögen
83rd Academy Awards®, USA 2011
GERMAN ENTRY to compete for the BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM AWARD
PANORAMA SPECIAL
15th German/Turkish Film Festival Nuremberg, Germany 2010
COMPETITION
1st Recklinghausen Filmfestival, Germany 2010
COMPETITION
32nd Créteil International Women’s Film Festival, France 2010
COMPETITION
29th International Film Festival Istanbul, Turkey 2010
GALA PRESENTATION
CPH:PIX Copenhagen International Film Festival, Denmark 2010
-GERMAN DAYS
9th Tribeca Film Festival, USA 2010
WORLD NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION
Audi Festival of German Films Sydney/Melbourne, Australia 2010
36th Seattle International Film Festival, USA 2010
CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
6th Festival of German Films Ludwigshafen, Germany 2010
SELECTION ‘Lichtblicke’
13th Shanghai International Film Festival, China 2010
FOCUS GERMANY
32nd Moscow International Film Festival, Russia 2010
FILMS AROUND THE WORLD
6th Traverse City Film Festival (Michael Moore), USA 2010
-COMEDY & DRAMA FROM HOME & ABROAD
9th German Film Week México City & Guadalajara, Mexico 2010
OPENING FILM
SANFIC6 – Santiago International Film Festival Chile, Chile 2010
COMPETITION
21st Espoo Ciné International Film Festival, Finland 2010
GERMAN FILM PROGRAM
67th Venice International Film Festival, Italy 2010
-VENICE DAYS / as competition film of the PRIX-LUX-
22nd Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, Canada 2010
23rd Haifa International Film Festival, Israel 2010
OFFICIAL COMPETITION
10th Festival of German Films in Buenos Aires, Argentina 2010
OPENING FILM
Filmfestival Lahore ‚Berlin – City in Change’, Pakistan 2010
OPENING FILM
11th Calgary International Film Festival, Canada 2010
29th Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada 2010
CINEMA OF OUR TIME
5th ‚Das Filmfest’ – Festival of German Films in Prag, Czech Republic 2010
Filmfestival New German Cinema Tallinn, Estonia 2010
39th Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal, Canada 2010
COMPETITION
18th Hamptons International Film Festival, USA 2010
WORLD CINEMA
26th Warschau Film Festival, Poland 2010
DISCOVERIES
15th Sehenswert ‚New German Films’ in Pécs, Hungary 2010
OPENING FILM
37th Flanders International Film Festival Ghent, Belgium 2010
COMPETITION
33rd Mill Valley Film Festival, USA 2010
WORLD CINEMA
8th Morelia International Film Festival, Mexico 2010
8th Zagreb Film Festival, Croatia 2010
COMPETITION
KINO/10 – recent German Film Productions in Hongkong, China 2010
23rd Panorama of European Cinema Athen, Greece 2010
COMPETITION
‚German Currents’ in Los Angeles, USA 2010
OPENING FILM
34th São Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil 2010
NEW FILMMAKERS COMPETITION
55th Valladolid International Film Festival, Spanien 2010
COMPETITION
40th Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist, Ukraine 2010
COMPETITION
15th Berlin & Beyond Film Festival in San Francisco, USA 2010
CENTERPIECE FILM
25th Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, USA 2010
COMPETITION
8th Deutsche Filmwoche Cracow, Poland 2010
33rd Starz Denver Film Festival, USA 2010
COMPETITION
3rd Panorama of European Film Kairo, Egypt 2010
10th European Film Festival Sevilla, Spain 2010
EFA SELECTION
10th Turkish Film Festival Frankfurt/Main, Germany 2010
14th German Film Festival Singapore, Singapore 2010
16th MedFilm Festival, Italy 2010
THE CINEMA OF PRESENT – New Europe special showcase
10th Film Festival Women´s Worlds in Tübingen, Germany 2010
5th ‘Women In Direction’ International Film Festival Cuenca, Spain 2010
10th International Film Festival Marrakech, Morocco 2010
COMPETITION
18th International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography PLUS CAMERIMAGE, Poland 2010
FEATURE DEBUT COMPETITION
9th Festival of German Films in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk, Russia 2010
11th Tbilisi International Film Festival, Georgia 2010
MADE IN GERMANY
15th International Film Festival of Kerala, India 2010
WORLD CINEMA OFFICIAL SELECTION
7th Dubai International Film Festival, United Arab Emirates 2010
CINEMA OF THE WORLD
22nd Palm Springs International Film Festival, USA 2011
AWARDS BUZZ: BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE
22nd Premiers Plans Film Festival in Angers, France 2011
COMPETITION
19th Film|Neu Festival in Washington, USA 2011
8th KINO – Mostra de Cinema de Expressão Alemã in Lisbon, Portugal 2011
28th Annonay International Film Festival, France 2011
COMPETITION
34th Göteborg International Film Festival, Sweden 2011
18th Victoria Film Festival, Canada 2011
COMPETITION
34th Portland International Film Festival, USA 2011
COMPETITION
13th Muestra Internacional de Cine Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 2011
4th German Film Days in Nicosia, Cyprus 2011
9th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, Ireland 2011
WORLD CINEMA
7th Glasgow Film Festival, Scottland 2011
EUROPEAN GALAS SELECTION
German Film Festival in Chennai, India 2011
2nd Cinema Mundi in Brünn, Czech Republic 2011
15th Sofia International Film Festival, Bulgaria 2011
18th Sguardi Altrove Film Festival in Milan, Italy 2011
9th International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights, Switzerland 2011
German Film Days in Island, Iceland 2011
17th Bradford International Film Festival, England 2011
16th Vilnius International Film Festival „Kino pavasaris“, Lithuania 2011
15th Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London, England 2011
13th International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul, Korea 2011
NEW CURRENTS
9th San Sebastián Human Rights Film Festival, Spain 2011
OFF Plus CAMERA International Festival of Independent Cinema in Krakow, Poland 2011
-New German Cinema-
PROKINO – 22nd Week of German Cinema in Vendome, France 2011
18th Daya of European Films in Lucerna, Czech Republic 2011
1st German Culture Days Ostrava, Czech Republic 2011
Eurocine – European Film Festival in Bogota, Colombia 2011
Festival of German Films in Vilnius, Lithuania 2011
Le Festival international du Film de Pau, France 2011
19th Barcelona International Women’s Film Festival, Spain 2011
14th Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival, Turkey 2011
Forgotten Life – Red Cross Film Festival, Finland 2011
EU – Film Festival in Santiago, Chile 2011
13th Festival of German Films Madrid, Spain 2011
10th Transylvanian International Film Festival in Klausenburg, Romania 2011
Women Film Festival in Pamplona, Spain 2011
Cinema City Film & Media Festival, Serbia 2011
-INTERNATIONAL FILM COMPETITION SELECTION – EXIT POINT
23rd Galway Film Fleadh, Ireland 2011
TRANSATLANTYK – Poznan International Film & Music Festival, Poland 2011
10 GERMAN VOICES
5th Vukovar Film Festival, Croatia 2011
COMPETITION
7th Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema, Russia 2011
COMPETITION
6th International Film Festival Cinematik in Piestany, Slovakia 2011
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
5th Film Festival of Women in Salé, Morocco 2011
Mosaico Film Festival in Ravenna, Italy 2011
10th International Exile Film Festival in Goteborg, Sweden 2011
10th Human Rights Nights Film Festival in Bologna, Italy 2011
6th Muestra de cine internacional in Teruel, Spain 2011
20th TürkFilmFestivali Mannheim, Germany 2011
8th International Women’s Film Festival in Rehovot, Israel 2011
12th European Film Festival in La Paz, Bolivia 2011
European Film Days 2011 , Tunisia 2011
The International Images Film Festival for Women in Harare und Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 2011
12th Sottodiciotto Filmfestival Turin, Italy 2011
4th Bangalore International Film Festival, India 2011
COMPETITION
30th Bergamo Film Meeting, Italy 2012
European film festival “Hecho en Europa”, Puerto Rico 2012
1st Panazorean Film Festival, Portugal 2012
COMPETITION
3rd German Film Festival, Vietnam 2012
1st Evolution International Film Festival in Palma de Mallorca, Spain 2012
The Reykjavik European Film Festival, Iceland 2012
International Human Rights Filmfestival Albania, Albania 2013
Freedom Film Fest 2014, Malaysia 2014
PRESS
Süddeutsche Zeitung
“This movie goes to bottom of one’s heart!”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
“An impressive debut.”
Die Zeit
“Extraordinary, striking, brilliant.”
ZDF aspekte
“Terrific acting, wonderful photography.”
FAZ
“One of these films, which are breathtaking. WHEN WE LEAVE – a poetic stirring movie.”
BILD
“This movie shows with an intensity, which makes one feel loss for words, how a catastrophe takes its course.”
ttt – titel, thesen, temeperamente, ARD
“Grapping like a thriller!”
Süddeutsche Zeitung
“Extraordinary, striking, brilliant.”
ZDF-Aspekte
“An intelligent and important movie.”
kinokino, BR
“The strongest debut of a director since years!”
Stuttgarter Zeitung
“The strongest movie of this years Berlin Filmfest!”
Die Welt
“An extraordinaty, enormly intensive and first of all a very, very important work.”
kino-zeit.de
“A touching movie. A grand movie. An exciting movie. … A great German society-thriller. Moving. Disturbing. … kudos, kudos, kudos.”
Deutschland Radio
“The best debut film since years!”
Cinema
“A strong and highly dedicated movie.”
artmetropol.tv
“Gripping, straight forward, brillant!”
TV Digital
“An absolutely impressive movie!”
Brigitte
“A great movie – a must see!”
TV Movie
“WHEN WE LEAVE is a movie, which enthuses critics and audience equally … Feo Aladag proves her sense for emotional nuances in her story.”
3sat, “kennwort Kino”
“Impressive, very touching movie.”
KulturSPIEGEL
“The quiet sensation of the Berlin filmfest!”
Bild
“Nearly unbearable realistic and brillantly analysed debut. Sensational!”
petra
“The best debut of a director since many years!”
TV Spielfilm
The Huffington Post, Joseph Smigelski
“It’s a universal story that will connect with audiences.”
The Hollywood Reporter
“WHEN WE LEAVE is such a powerful film that the academy could not ignore it. It’s heartbreaking. And the subject matter is intense, but this is a must see film.”
Awards Daily’s Oscar Countdown – Watching Oscar 24/7, Special to Awards Daily, Brian Whisenant
“This is a tremendous and well-crafted film that is astonishing and eyeopening in its content and subject, and quietly revealing in its style of storytelling.”
“Truly spectacular. I compliment Ms. Aladag on a great film. I highly recommend this film as a window into a world and an issue not prevalent in the news but very real, relevant and timely.”
Tribeca Film Festival – 2010 Film Guide
“The jury, which included actors Hope Davis and Aaron Eckhardt, said in a statement that WHEN WE LEAVE „examines one woman’s struggle for personal freedom. It’s a theme that is often explored – but rarely told with such humanity, subtlety, craftsmanship or immediacy.”
Los Angeles Times
“WHEN WE LEAVE examines one woman’s struggle for personal freedom. It’s a theme that is often explored – but rarely told with such humanity, subtlety, craftsmanship or immediacy, as in tonight’s winning entry. WHEN WE LEAVE is a riveting and heartbreaking story of a woman trapped in an abusive relationship, who must not only free herself from that marriage, but also the cultural prejudices and judgments that would keep her there. Feo Aladag built the nuances of her film over a six year period. She rehearsed her actors for seven months. She immersed herself in every detail of a culture that is revealed to us in remarkable detail. The result is a film that balances complex social issues with honest human yearnings. Through the brutality, WHEN WE LEAVE is also a story of tenderness, the struggle for compassion, the inexorable pull of family and the need to love and be loved.”
Tribeca Film Festival, Award Ceremony, 29.04.2010. Jury: Hope Davis, Aaron Eckhart, John Hamburg, Cheryl Hines, John Ridley, Gary Ross and Gary Winick
“You cannot withdraw from this film!”
Milliyet, Cigdem Hizkan
„A great film about being different: WHEN WE LEAVE.”
Milliyet
“A moving story with high potential for identification.”
Neuer Zürcher Zeitung
“WHEN WE LEAVE is an important movie. It’s so intense, it’s breathtaking, it hurts. Everyone should see this movie. It can make a difference.”
WARIS DIRIE
“The best German film since „The Lives of Others“.”
LE POINT
“Very precise…with force and strong realism.”
LE FIGARO
“A sober and powerful drama…”
L’Express
