Vor dem Flug zur Erde

2005

Before Flying Back to Earth (originally released in Lithuania as Prieš parskrendant į žemę in 2005) is the first feature-length documentary film by the Lithuanian film director Arūnas Matelis. In a lyrical, yet unsentimental fashion, it shows the lives of children hospitalized with leukemia in Vilnius Pediatric Hospital - the same place where Matelis' daughter had battled and recovered from this disease some time before the start of production. The film is described as "a poetic, unsentimental Lithuanian documentary about the resilience of (the) human spirit". Its laconic style and its formal simplicity have been likened to haiku by some critics.[1] Before Flying Back to the Earth is the most highly acclaimed recent Lithuanian film and is considered one of the best documentary films of 2005 in the world; it has been shown in numerous festivals.[2] The film is in the Lithuanian language.

Arūnas Matelis was awarded the Best Director award in Documentary Feature category during the Directors Guild of America Awards 2006 night on February 3 in Los Angeles for Before Flying Back to Earth.[3] It has become only the second film from Eastern Europe, since Roman Polanski's The Pianist in 2003, to win an award in the ADG; it is also the only film from the region of Central and Eastern Europe to have been nominated for Best Documentary.[4] The film has won many other awards and nominations, including the following:

The film was nominated for the European Film Academy Best Documentary Award of 2005 and was submitted for the 79th Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2006.

Quelle: Wikipedia(englisch)
Kinostart:2005
weitere Titel:
Pries parskrendant i zeme
Prieš parskrendant į žemęlt
Before Flying Back to the Earth
Vor dem Flug zur Erde
Перед возвращением на землю
Genre:Dokumentarfilm
Herstellungsland:Litauen, Deutschland
Originalsprache:Litauisch
Farbe:Farbe
IMDB: 1166
Regie:Arūnas Matelis
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2007
Directors Guild of America, USA
DGA Award
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
Nominiert
2006
Brooklyn International Film Festival
Spirit Award
Documentary
Nominiert
2006
Silverdocs Documentary Festival
Honorable Mention
Documentary
Nominiert
2005
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival
Silver Wolf
Nominiert
2005
European Film Awards
European Film Award
European Documentary
Nominiert
2005
Leipzig DOK Festival
Golden Dove
Long Footage
Nominiert
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