Back for Good
Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2017
DEU 2017
by: Mia Spengler
Kim Riedle
Back for Good
Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2017
DEU 2017
by: Mia Spengler
Kim Riedle, Leonie Wesselow
Back for Good
Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2017
DEU 2017
by: Mia Spengler
Kim Riedle
Feb 10, 2017Juliane Köhler, Kim Riedle, Jasmin Gerat
The two leading actresses of the opening film together with the German actress Jasmin Gerat.
Perspektive Deutsches Kino – Back for Good – Berlinale Open House
Feb 10, 2017Mia Spengler
The director of the opening film.
Perspektive Deutsches Kino – Back for Good
Feb 10, 2017Mia Spengler, Mia Spengler
The director and the leading actress together with the rest of the team of the opening film.
Perspektive Deutsches Kino – Back for Good
Feb 12, 2017Mia Spengler
The director of the film from Perspektive during Q&A.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Back for Good
Feb 12, 2017Leonie Wesselow, Kim Riedle
The actresses of the film from Perspektive during Q&A.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Back for Good
Feb 12, 2017Leonie Wesselow, Kim Riedle, Mia Spengler
Photo Call for good: The two actresses and the director of the film from Perspektive in the cinema Toni & Tonino.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Back for Good
Feb 10, 2017Mia Spengler
The director of the opening film.
Perspektive Deutsches Kino – Back for Good
Three women, one family: Monika the mother, Angie the older sister and Kiki the baby of the family. Angie is a reality-TV star who is doggedly clinging onto her fading career. Fresh out of rehab, she suddenly finds herself without any money, friends or a place to live and is condemned to returning to her mother in her hated dump of a hometown. Angie's teenage sister Kiki is also finding life tough-going. Due to her epilepsy, her mother Monika insists that she wears a freaky protective helmet. The consequence: Kiki is ostracised and bullied, her life has long since become the hell from which her mother is trying to protect her. As Angie takes up residence on the air mattress beside Kiki's bed, she appears to be the perfect adviser to help Kiki struggle out of her social isolation and the two grow closer.
What at first appears to be a catastrophe actually becomes a chance for all three women to change. Back for Good is a bittersweet ode to humanity – quietly hummed whilst an auto-tuned pop song blares out of the radio.
by
Mia Spengler
Germany 2017
German
91’ · Colour
Kim Riedle (Angie)Juliane Köhler (Monika)Leonie Wesselow (Kiki)Nicki von Tempelhoff (Drew)Emma Drogunova (Coco Cain)Hanife Sylejmani (Sanny)Anna Oussankina (Ginny)Lena Thom (Ivy)Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey (TV-Micha)Ulrike Krumbiegel (Yvette)
Born in Munich, Germany in 1986, after completing school in Hamburg she spent two years in Beijing where she founded the band MIYA. After several jobs in film production in Shanghai, she returned to Germany in 2008 and became PA for Hans Weingartner in Berlin. In 2009 she began studying directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg where she directed a number of award-winning short films including Nicht den Boden berühren (Don't Hit the Ground) with which she won the Torino Award at the San Sebastián Film Festival. In 2016 she completed her studies with her graduation film and debut feature Back for Good.
Filmography2009 Dazwischen; short film 2010 Das Ritual; short film 2012 Heimweg; short film · 2 Know U; music video 2013 Nicht den Boden berühren (Don’t hit the ground); short film 2015 Trennungstraining; comedy series pilot 2017 Back for Good
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018
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