Films
Shifting the Blame
Information
Available on DVD/Bluray since January 2014
TV: June 2013 on ARTE
Release Date: 28 February 2013
GRIMME PRIZE 2014:
Nominated for the Category: Fiction 2014
DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS 2013:
Edin Hasanovic – Nominated: Best Male Actor
Anna Maria Praßler – Nominated : Best Screenplay
Awards
Best Feature Film | Film Festival Baden-Württemberg 2012
Best Main Actor | São Paulo International Film Festival
Student Biber | Film Festval Biberach 2012
Audience Award | Festival des deutschen Films Ludwigshafen
Bernhard Wicki Award | Filmfest Emden
NDR Young Director’s Award
DGB Trade Union Award
BESTE DIRECTOR | Studio Hamburg Next Generation Award 2012
Festivals
Metropolis 2012
Thessaloniki Int. Film Festival
São Paulo Int. Film Festival
Film Festival Osnabrück
Int. Film Festival for Children and Young Audience, Chemnitz
36. World Film Festival Montreal
33. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
Genre: Drama, 93 Minutes
Director: Lars-Gunnar Lotz
Writer: Anna Maria Praßler
Production Company: FFL Film- und Fernseh-Labor Ludwigsburg GmbH & Co. KG
Main Cast: Edin Hasanovic, Julia Brendler, Marc Ben Puch, Pit Bukowski
Coproduction with SWR (German Television) and Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. Funded by the MFG (Film Funding Baden-Württemberg). Completed 2012
Synopsis
Ben ist given the unique chance of a new beginning in the idyllic “Waldhaus”. As one of seven juvenile offenders he should adopt social skills and experience security in a family-like community. But when he meets his housemother Eva he is shocked: She is one of his vitims. His brutal assault on her was never resolved. Ben does his best not to attract attention, but Eva soon starts to suspect something.