WINNER OF OVER 30 AWARDS AROUND THE WORLD

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Helmut is celebrating his 60th birthday. He's actually only turning 57, but his wife Gertrud has got her maths wrong. While the facade of petit-bourgeois domesticity is gradually flaking, old friends come by and offer some well-meaning advice – a bizarre declaration of love to transience.

When it won both the Best Short Film Award and the Grand Prix at the 13th Tokyo Shorts Film Festival in June 2011, the jury emphasized in its statement: "This is a unique film that could only be produced in this format, for it would have been impossible to shoot it as a feature film. The film has a great deal of imagination, originality and new techniques."

"It's Me Helmut" has screened at over 80 festivals around the world, including some of the most prestigious, like Locarno, Clermont-Ferrand and Karlovy Vary.

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SELECT FESTIVALS & AWARDS

- Winner of Grand Prix & Best Short Award at Tokyo's Short Shorts Film Festival
- Winner of Aprile Award at 2010 Milano Film Festival, Italy
- In Competition at 33rd Clermon-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
- 64th Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
- 17th Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 15th Berlin & Beyond Film Festival, San Francisco
- 52nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece
- 16th Palm Springs Short Film Festival

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Nicolas Steiner was born in 1984 in Turtmann, Switzerland. After studying at European Film College in Denmark, Zurich University in Switzerland, and Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany - he is currently at the San Francisco Art Institute, with the support of the Fulbright program. His short films include: Snatch & Kittie (2006), Sticky (2008), Blitz und Donner, Windgefauch (2009), and It’s Me, Helmut (2009). His feature debut documentary Battle of the Queens (2011) held its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.

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SHOWTIME & TICKETS

SUN. 01/15 at 7:30PM
Janet Leigh Theatre at Pacific

Preceeds closing night film "Carol Channing - Larger than Life"

CAST AND CREW

Director: Nicolas Steiner
Writers: Nicolas Steiner, Stefanie Ren
Producer: Anna-Luise Dietzel, Nicolas Steiner
Cinematographer: Clemens Baumeister
Editors: Nicolas Steiner, Jann Anderegg
Music: Hidden White Horn Jazz Band, Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Cast: Matthias Zelic, Suly Röthlisberger, Andreas Herzog, Björn Keckeis, Leander Bregy, Bernhard Borter, Therese Borter, Marie Borter, Helene Bregy, Martin Indermitte

PRINT SOURCE

Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
filmakademie.de