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Ghosts

Director Benjamin Pfohl
DOP Tim Kuhn
Screenplay Benjamin Pfohl
Editor Valesca Peters
Cast Daniela Schulz, André M. Hennicke, Saskia Vester, Vita Tempel
Co-Producer HFF, Zündel Film
Awards / Festivals 48. Hofer Filmtage
36. Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis
Athens International Film + Video Festival
Rome Independent Film Festival
Tbilisi International Student Film Festival „AMIRANI 2015“
18th CineMaiubit Int. Student Film Festival Bukarest
16. Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival
Sehsüchte 2015, Festival of Nations Lenzing
Category Shorts

In Germany Europe‘s biggest open-pit coal mine forces villages to yield and thousands of people to abandon their homes in order to dig for valuable lignite. A young woman lives with her mother as the last residents in one of these ghost towns and has to defend her homeland from final extinction.

In the German Rhineland Europe‘s biggest open-pit coal mine displaces entire villages and forces thousands of people to abandon their homes in order to dig for valuable lignite A young woman lives with her mother as the last residents in one of these ghost towns threatened by monstrous excavators digging through the earth‘s surface The final destruction of the town is imminent, yet the mother keeps on fighting against their relocation and thus pushes her daughter into the arms of one of the mining company‘s charming negotiators But as this stranger begins to take more drastic measures to force the family to leave, the young woman switches sides and has to defend her home from destruction