Trailer
Year
2008
Length
30 min
Director
Sabine Michel
Bom Dia, Jana
A sensitive and fabulous portrait about the insecurity of adolescence, hostility in one's life, melancholy of the age of puberty and the easiness of teenage dreams.
Monchique, Portugal: A small village located at a mountainside on the northern edge of the Algarve. Jana walks among the narrow alleyways. She is the daughter of an emigrated German family and shelterdly grew up with her four elder brothers in a farmhouse which was restored by her parents. During her whole childhood she twinkle-toedly follows her big brothers and dreams about living their lives. However the family splits up surprisingly. Her parents separate and her brothers move to Lissabon. Jana and her mother Ilo are left in the little village in which they still are outsiders. Soon rumours about Jana are spread and resonate extremly loud in a small city like Monchique. They impute pregnancy and abortion, which was forbidden in Portugal until 2007, to the 12 year old girl. Jana locks herself up at home and drops out of school. To hide her pain and insecurity she builds a big wall of silence around herself. Growing up sometimes can be very lonesome. Nevertheless her mother and her brothers stick by her. The teenager, meanwhile 17 years old, managed to reintegrate and started an apprenticeship. But just arriving in the simplicity of adolescence Jana has to bear a new challenge.
Written and directed by
Sabine Michel
Director of Photography
Joao Pedro Placido
Editing
Gudrun Steinbrück
Music
Pablo und Nico Malter
Sound
Carlos Mota
Sound Engineering
Jörg Höhne
Production Assistant
Susanne Radelhof
Producer
Maria Wischnewski
Executive Producer
Christian Beetz
Commissioning Editor
Katya Mader
Sales & distribution
- Press kit
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„Just in diesem Moment überraschen uns die aus dem Theaterbereich stammenden jungen Regisseure Hans Block und Moritz Riesewieck mit einem erstaunlichen Dokumentarfilm, der seit Monaten Publikum und Kritik auf den wichtigsten Festivals der Welt elektrisiert. Völlig zu Recht: Es ist, als würden einem die Scheuklappen weggerissen, als sähe man das, was sich seit Jahren direkt vor unseren Augen abspielt, zum ersten Mal unverschleiert... eine fesselnde ,Doku noir' mit höchstem Anspruch...Dieser Film müsste an allen Schulen gezeigt werden.“
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
17.05.2018
