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Gabi

Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2017
© Clara Rosenthal
Gabi is amazing! Not because she spends almost all of her very long days on the building site and could probably push a nail into a concrete wall with her bare hands, but because she’s the best tiling master that her apprentice Marco could have wanted.
During the last couple of weeks Marco has been rehearsing with Gabi how to finally split up with his girlfriend. He has explored all the angles: the sympathy ploy, the macho number and the-man-who-understands-women-pose, and at least three, sometimes up to six subvarieties of these themes. But it’s not exactly been a resounding success. At least not as far as Marco is concerned. Gabi on the other hand, who embarked on all of this quite casually, begins to see how their game could help her to combat both the enduring emptiness in her own life and the constant pressure she experiences from all sides.
Director Michael Fetter Nathansky describes Gabi as an attempt to find a way of expressing on film the things that have often been said but failed to change anything, the things that have never been said, and everything which will probably never be said in the future, either.
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by Michael Fetter Nathansky
with Gisa Flake, Florian Kroop, Britta Steffenhagen, Martin Neuhaus, Dela Dabulamanzi, Werner Prieß, Anja Karnstedt Germany 2017 German 30’ Colour

With

  • Gisa Flake (Gabi)
  • Florian Kroop (Marco)
  • Britta Steffenhagen (Sister)
  • Martin Neuhaus (Husband)
  • Dela Dabulamanzi (Customer in hair salon)
  • Werner Prieß (Father)
  • Anja Karnstedt (Affair)

Crew

Written and Directed by Michael Fetter Nathansky
Cinematography Clara Rosenthal
Editing Kai Eiermann
Sound Robert Niemeyer
Costumes Maike Krych
Make-Up Christina Birnbaum
Producer Anna-Sophie Philippi, Virginia Martin
Commissioning Editor Martina Nix
Co-Production rbb Berlin

World sales

Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

http://www.filmuniversitaet.de http://www.filmuniversitaet.de

Produced by

Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

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Photos

Berlinale Meets | Interview

Michael Fetter Nathansky

© Sophie Linnenbaum

Born in 1993, he grew up in Cologne and Madrid. From 2013 to 2021, he studied directing at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. His short film Gabi celebrated its world premiere in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section of the Berlinale and won the German Short Film Award. His graduation film You Tell Me won the main prize at the Ludwigshafen film festival and was nominated for the First Steps Award. The co-writer of Sophie Linnenbaum’s The Ordinaries, he is also a Berlinale Talents alumnus.

Filmography (selection)

2014 Kurtsky – Die Eintagsfliege (Kurtsky); short film 2015 Chewbaccerl; short documentary · Pitter; short film 2017 Gabi; medium-length film 2019 Sag du es mir (You Tell Me) · Un cuento sin ti (A Story without You); short documentary · Und weinen können (5 Ways to Cry); short film 2021 Salidas (Departures); short film 2024 Alle die Du bist (Every You Every Me)

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2024