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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.
Director
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
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Documentary Feature
German, English
Hamburger Premieren | FF2018
Germany
2018
97 min
OV with German subtitles
Guido Weihermüller
Guido Weihermüller
Protagonisten: Asael Shabo, Alireza Ahmadi, Julian Zielinski, Anne Patzwald
Silvia Weihermüller
Neels Feil, Sebastian Uthoff, Guido Weihermüller
Imke Koseck
Kian Djalili, Lars Dahlke, Ruben Severs, Small Fires
Paul Burba
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Close Distance Productions
Silvia Weihermüller, Close Distance Productions: sw@close-distance.de