Closing Time
Switzerland / Germany, August 2018
FILM,
Documentary,
116 min.
- directed by
- Nicole Vögele
- Written by
- Nicole Vögele
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- www.closing-time.ch
Kuo and his wife cook for the city’s sleepless. They work all night and sleep during the day, like many others in buzzing Taipei. The film is an attempt at capturing time, a cinematographic meditation on in-between moments and a search for the inexplicable when a human being is simply human.
credits
- World Premiere
- August 2018
- Original Version
- Chinese (french/english/german subtitles), colour, DCP, 116 min.
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-67B5-0000-D-0000-0000-Z
- Production
- Beauvoir Films, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
- Producer
- Aline Schmid
- directed by
- Nicole Vögele
- Written by
- Nicole Vögele
- Cinematography
- Stefan Sick
- Editing
- Hannes Bruun
- Location Sound Mix
- Markus Rebholz
- Sound Editing
- Jonathan Schorr
- Sound Design
- Jonathan Schorr
- Music
- Alva Noto, Kevin Drumm, Jonathan Schorr
- Location Sound Mix
- Jonathan Schorr
World Sales / World Rights
- World Sales
- Taskovski Films Ltd
Worldwide Distribution
- Switzerland
-
Xenix Filmdistribution GmbH
Distribution
Release date: 21.03.2019
Awards
(a selection)
- Locarno, Locarno Festival, Premio speciale della giuria Ciné+ Cineasti del presente 2018 (Winner)
- Berlin, First Steps Der Deutsche Nachwuchspreis, Best Documentary 2018 (Nomination)
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Taipei, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2019
08.11.2019 - 24.11.2019 -
Leeds, 33rd Leeds International Film Festival
06.11.2019 - 21.11.2019 -
Sheffield, Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019
06.06.2019 - 11.06.2019 -
Warsaw, 16th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
10.05.2019 - 19.05.2019 -
Belgrade, Beldocs 2019 International Documentary Film Festival
08.05.2019 - 15.05.2019 -
Munich, 34. DOK.fest München
08.05.2019 - 19.05.2019 -
Jeonju, 20th Jeonju International Film Festival
02.05.2019 - 11.05.2019 -
Leuven, 15th Docville International Documentary Film Festival Leuven
27.03.2019 - 04.04.2019 -
Ann Arbor, 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival
26.03.2019 - 31.03.2019 -
Göteborg, 42. Göteborg International Film Festival
25.01.2019 - 04.02.2019
-
Solothurn, 54. Solothurner Filmtage
24.01.2019 - 31.01.2019 -
Porto, 5° Porto Post Doc Film & Media Festival
24.11.2018 - 02.12.2018 -
Gijón, 56° Festival internacional de Cine de Gijon
16.11.2018 - 24.11.2018 -
Amsterdam, 31st IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
14.11.2018 - 25.11.2018 -
Montreal, 21e RIDM Rencontres internationales du documentaire Montréal
08.11.2018 - 18.11.2018 -
Locarno, 71° Locarno Festival
01.08.2018 - 11.08.2018