Kampf der Königinnen
Battle Of The Queens
Combat de reines
Germany / Switzerland, February 2011
FILM,
Documentary,
70 min.
- directed by
- Nicolas Steiner
- Written by
- Nicolas Steiner
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- www.kampfderkoeniginnen.ch
A film from and about rural Europe capturing a timeless cultural event: a series of head-to-head fights of cows, not bulls, set in a valley in sunny Southern Switzerland. The fights are sudden snorting seesaws, explosions of mass and muscle, archaic and wild. We follow three concurrent story lines: an anxious farmer with his beloved contender, a neurotic unemployed reporter from Zurich come to find a story and a gang of adolescent boys on mopeds trying to catch a pretty girl's eye. This black and white film tries to capture the balance between fascinating tradition and modernity.
credits
- World Premiere
- February 2011
- Original Version
- French, Swiss-German (german subtitles), s/w, DCP, 70 min.
- Production
- Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Nicolas Steiner
- Producer
- Malte Can, Nicolas Steiner
- directed by
- Nicolas Steiner
- Written by
- Nicolas Steiner
- Cinematography
- Markus Nestroy
- Editing
- Kaya Inan
- Sound Editing
- Tobias Koch, Michael Kaczmarek
- Sound Design
- Tobias Koch
- Re-Recording Mix
- Michael Kaczmarek
- Music
- John Gürtler, Jan Miserre
- Location Sound Mix
- Tobias Koch, Sebastian Heeg
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Worldwide Distribution
- Switzerland
-
Cineworx GmbH
Distribution
Release date: 03.05.2012
Awards
(a selection)
- Filmfest Eberswalde, Bester Dokumentarfilm Internationaler Wettbewerb 2011 (Winner)
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Locarno, 69° Festival del film Locarno
03.08.2016 - 13.08.2016 -
1er Festival de Cinéma Jeune Public de Lausanne
25.11.2015 - 29.11.2015 -
Milan, 20th Milano Film Festival
10.09.2015 - 20.09.2015 -
6th "Cinema Vérité" Iran International Documentary Film Festival Tehran
03.11.2012 - 09.11.2012 -
12th International Documentary Film Festival "Flahertiana" Perm
10.10.2012 - 15.10.2012 -
San Francisco, Berlin & Beyond Film Festival San Francisco
27.09.2012 - 04.10.2012 -
Bradford International Film Festival
19.04.2012 - 29.04.2012 -
Buenos Aires, 14° Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independente
11.04.2012 - 22.04.2012 -
San Jose Film Festival
28.02.2012 - 11.03.2012 -
Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
19.01.2012 - 26.01.2012
-
Wiesbaden, Wiesbadener Kinofestival e.V.
11.11.2011 - 20.11.2011 -
Duisburg, Duisburger Filmwoche / vhs
07.11.2011 - 13.11.2011 -
Biberach, Biberacher Filmfestspiele
02.11.2011 - 06.11.2011 -
Emmentaler Filmtage
14.10.2011 - 16.10.2011 -
Sassuolo, 19th Yasujiro Ozu International Short Film Festival
13.10.2011 - 16.10.2011 -
8. Internationales Filmfest Eberswalde
01.10.2011 - 08.10.2011 -
17th Festival della Lessinia
20.08.2011 - 28.08.2011 -
Locarno, 64° Festival del film Locarno
03.08.2011 - 13.08.2011 -
Fünf-Seen-Land, 5. Fünf Seen Film Festival
27.07.2011 - 07.08.2011 -
21. Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Schwerin
03.05.2011 - 08.05.2011 -
Nyon, 17e Visions du Réel Festival international de cinéma Nyon
07.04.2011 - 13.04.2011 -
Berlin, Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
10.02.2011 - 20.02.2011