Special screening at the Greifensteine drive-in cinema: The film "Lonig & Havendel" will be shown at the end of the Vietnamese-East German event series - made with the support of numerous actors and communities from the cultural area. The screening will take place in a special location: on a screen stretched directly over the original film location, the Greifensteine leisure pool.
To get the audience in the mood, a surprise pre-film relating to the Vietnamese diaspora will be shown.
Film description:
To see snow and learn German, Trúc Lâm is in a small mountainous town in the Ore Mountains. On an excursion to a mine, she gets lost on the other side of the mountain. She follows a singer into the forest, who sings his concerts for the trees.
In the town on the other side lives Duc, the son of a Vietnamese family who run an "Asian snack bar". When Duc finds his long-lost mobile phone, he receives some dodgy text messages.
While Duc tries to write a song, Trúc Lâm enlists the help of a ghost to find his way back.
Screenplay, director & producer: Claudia Tuyết Scheffel
Camera: Yunus Çağ Köylü
Editing: Niklas Doka
Sound design: Nicola Sulis, Ki Bui
Music: Florian Illing
Production design: Nele Seifert
Costume design: Babette Sperling, Pia Kopprasch
Make-up: Lydia Drees, Pia Kopprasch
Cast:
Tri Ân Bùi, Nano Nguyễn, Jördis Herrmann, Niklas Niki Wetzel, Vy Lưu, Long Đặng Ngọc, Lan Pham Thị, Bijan Benjamin, Jonas Barnitzke, Vy Anh N. Nguyễn, Michaela Banert, Denise Weinert, Marc Schwan, Volker Scheffel, Martina Berwitz, Simone Tilk, Tuyết Minh Scheffel
World premiere: Max Ophüls Prize 2025
33. Hamburg Film Festival (25.09. - 04.10.2025)
30. SCHLiNGEL International Film Festival Chemnitz (27.09. - 04.10.2025)
35. FilmFestival Cottbus (04.11. - 09.11.2025)
FILMZ Festival of German Cinema Mainz (06.11. - 16.11.2025)
