Synopse
DOCUMENTARY Sensitive insights into an unusual wheelchair basketball team in Hamburg – and an unusual friendship.After a terrorist attack, 24-year old Asael is confined to a wheelchair. In the summer of 2017 he leaves his home in Israel to try his luck in Hamburg as a wheelchair basketball pro with the BG Baskets. The team consists of nine international top players and lives in the grounds of a casualty hospital. One of them is Ali, an Iranian. Through the sport, he and the Israeli Asael become close friends.
Regie
After studying journalism, GUIDO WEIHERMÜLLER (*1964) worked for various broadcasters before switching to advertising. Since 2006, he has lectured at the Media Academy Hamburg in the field of crossmedia. In 2016, FILMFEST HAMBURG showed his documentary Die Norm [The Norm].
Info
Original Title: Vierzehneinhalb Kollisionen
International Title: Fourteen-and-a-half Collisions
Category: Documentary feature
Section: HH Filmschau
Version & Subtitles: German, English OV with German subtitles
Director & Screenplay: Guido Weihermüller
Cast/Protagonists: Protagonisten: Asael Shabo, Alireza Ahmadi, Julian Zielinski, Anne Patzwald
Production country: Germany
Year of Production: 2018
Length: 97 min
Producer: Silvia Weihermüller
Production company: Close Distance Productions
Cinematography: Neels Feil, Sebastian Uthoff, Guido Weihermüller
Editor: Imke Koseck
Music: Kian Djalili, Lars Dahlke, Ruben Severs, Small Fires
World Sales: -
Distributor: -
