System sprinklers for Hamburg in the Oscar race

16.10.2019 | Academy Awards 2020

Germany is sending the drama "Systemsprenger" by Hamburg-based Director Nora Fingscheidt into the race for an Oscar nomination in the category "Best Non-English Language Film". This was announced today by German Films.

Helge AlbersCEO of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein: "Great news from Munich: With 'Systemsprenger' - after Fatih Akin's 'Into the Fate' and Maren Ade's 'Toni Erdmann' - another FFHSH-funded production has a chance of being nominated for an Oscar. The fact that Hamburg-based Director Nora Fingscheidt has made such a leap with her first feature film is fantastic news. Congratulations to the whole 'Systemsprenger' film team - above all Directors Nora Fingscheidt, the stunning leading actress Helena Zengel, kineo Filmproduktion and the Hamburg production companies Weydemann Bros and Oma Inge Film."

More about the film: Hamburg-based Directors and Script Writer Nora Fingscheidt has already won the Silver Bear at the 2019 Berlinale with her debut film "Systemsprenger". With over 35 days of filming, the majority of the shoot took place in Hamburg in early 2018. The film is about Benni, a tender girl with boisterous energy. Benni is what is known as a 'system dropout', a child who falls through the cracks of German child and youth services. Wherever the nine-year-old is taken in, she is thrown out again after a short time. The drama is a production of kineo Filmproduktion and Weydemann Bros. GmbH in co-production with Oma Inge Film and ZDF/ Das kleine Fernsehspiel. Distribution Port au Prince Pictures will release the film in cinemas nationwide on 19 September. Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein has supported the production with 175,000 euros.

About the Academy Awards: The 92nd Academy Awards will take place on 9 February 2020 in Los Angeles. The Academy in Hollywood will decide on the nominations in the "Best Non-English Language Film" category. The nominations will be announced shortly before Christmas 2019.

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