THE ORDINARIES

Have you ever felt like a supporting character in your own life?
What if you really are one…?

Fühlst du dich auch manchmal wie eine Nebenfigur in deinem eigenen Leben?
Was ist, wenn du wirklich eine bist...?

- Fiction, 120 min, 2022-

Mit/With

Fine Sendel, Jule Böwe, Henning Peker, Noah Tinwa, Sira Faal, Denise M’Baye, Pasquale Aleardi, Noah Bailey
Joy Maria Bai, Birgit Berthold, Dela Dabulamanzi, Cino Djavid, Sibylle Maria Dordel,
Rike Eckermann, Gisa Flake, Mélanie Fouché, Mathias Max Herrmann, Aurel Manthei, Michael
Pink, Heiko Pinkowski, Marc Ben Puch, Rainer Reiners, Ben Andrews Rumler, Christian Steyer,
Bastian Sierich, Paul Stiehler, Martin Umbach, Heinz Wanitschek, Paul Zichner, u.a.

director Sophie Linnenbaum

screenplay Sophie Linnenbaum & Michael Fetter Nathansky

producer Laura Klippel, Britta Strampe

production design Josefine Lindner, Max-Josef Schönborn

cinematography Valentin Selmke

visual effects supervisor Johannes Blech

costume design Sophie Peters

make-up artist Elena Ziegler

casting director Karl Schirnhofer

music composer Fabian Zeidler

editing Kai Eiermann

sound design & mixing Nicolas Voß

production company BANDENFILM

co- production ZDF – Das Kleine Fernsehspiel Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

comission editor Jörg Schneider

theatrical distribution germany Not Sold & Port au Prince

THE MATCH FACTORY

FESTIVALS

PREMIERE FILMFEST MUNICH 2022

KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

- Christal Globe Competition

ZÜRICH FILM FESTIVAL, SWITZERLAND

THESSALONIKI FILM FESTIVAL, GREECE

PÖFF TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS, ESTLAND
Best of Fest

GOLDEN ROOSTER FILM FESTIVAL, CHINA

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF INDIA

REC DE TARRAGONA, SPAIN

AROUND THE WORLD IN 14 FILMS, BERLIN

LES ARCS FILM FESTIVAL, FRANCE

AWARDS

First Steps Award - best feature

Förderpreis Neues Deutsches Kino - Filmfest München

- best production

- best director

New Faces Award Film - best feater

DEFA Förderpreis - Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Audience Award - best Film - Filmkunstmesse Leipzig

Children- and youthaward of Goethe Institute I Internationales Filmfestival SCHLINGEL

„Mainzer Rad“ for best feature - FILMZ - Festival des deutschen Kinos

"Heimspielpreis“ for Denise M’Baye - Braunschweig International Film Festival

KINEMA - German-french-youth-Award for outstanding debut – Braunschweig International Film Festival

Audience Award - best international feature - Golden Rooster Film Festival

Best feature - Ahrenshooper Filmnächte

Best feature MADE IN GERMANY I exground Wiesbaden