{"id":64029,"date":"2022-05-12T19:18:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T19:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucm.one\/nico-2021-by-eline-gehring-darling-berlin\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T22:16:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T22:16:06","slug":"nico","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ucm.one\/en\/nico\/","title":{"rendered":"Nico (2021) by Eline Gehring | Darling Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nico<\/h1>\n

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The film “Nico<\/strong>“, for which director Eline Gehring<\/strong> wrote the screenplay together with cinematographer Francy Fabritz<\/strong> and producer and leading actress Sara Fazilat<\/strong>, celebrated its premiere in Germany at the Max Oph\u00fcls Prize Film Festival<\/strong> in January 2021. Sara Fazilat<\/strong> also won the prize for “Best Newcomer Actress<\/strong>“<\/em> there. She was also awarded the “No Fear Award<\/strong>“<\/em> as producer at the First Steps Award 2021<\/strong> shortly afterwards. The international premiere took place at the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival<\/strong> in the same year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Synopsis<\/h3>\n

The self-confident and lively German-Persian Nico loves her job as a geriatric nurse and is popular with everyone because of her easy-going and sympathetic manner.\u00a0She enjoys the Berlin summer with her best friend Rosa until a racist attack suddenly tears her out of her carefree everyday life. Nico realises that she doesn\u2018t belong as self-evidently as she always thought. Haunted by flashbacks of the terrible attack, she withdraws more and more into herself.<\/p>\n

Not only Rosa loses touch with her, but also her clients fail to recognise the young woman. Nico feels that things cannot go on like this and turns to the gruff karate champion Andy.
\nWith him she begins a tough training programme which helps her to channel her anger and discover her own strength, but she also loses touch with herself.\u00a0When Nico eventually meets the Macedonian woman Ronny, a connection develops between the two that causes Nico to question the path she has chosen.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1561290391124{border-right-width: -15px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”63931″ img_size=”full” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]”Nico<\/strong>” is an important and moving film whose stirring leading actress makes the audience feel every moment of her painful healing process.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Director\u2019s and producer\u2019s statement<\/h3>\n
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>> Because this film started as a joint project, this is a directing and production statement. <<<\/span><\/p>\n

“Make a film about racism? Yes! But not only.\u00a0In our opinion, diversity in terms of origin, body and sexuality must be represented less stereotypical in the German film and television landscape.\u00a0We grappled with anger and apparent helplessness that even today racism and sexism are part of our everyday lives.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nIn order to express this anger as authentically as possible, we opted for film characters that offer large areas of identification.\u00a0Not only the actors but also the film team worked with improvisational elements from the start. We worked with a small film team and often the stories of the film became our reality.\u00a0It was not a surprise but still a shocking matter that during the shoot an angry German man shouted at us \u201cthat we should speak German since this is Germany here\u201d, which encouraged us and showed us how important it is to make this film.”<\/em>
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Director and screenwriter: Eline Gehring<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Eline Gehring<\/strong> began her career in 2006 as a camerawoman and editor for German News<\/strong> reporting in Paris, Prague, Kiev and Berlin. She shot a documentary for the German Bundestag<\/strong> in Saint Petersburg and in 2008 she worked for Deutsche Welle<\/strong> in Cairo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2013 she began studying direction at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB)<\/strong> and directed short films that premiered at international film festivals.\u00a0In 2016 she worked as a co-director on the documentary “Helmut Berger, meine Mutter und ich<\/strong>“, produced by Edition Salzgeber<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In the same year she started working on her feature film debut “Nico<\/strong>“.\u00a0In 2021, “Nico<\/strong>” wins the Young Talent Acting Award<\/strong> for Sara Fazilat<\/strong> in the lead role in the feature film competition of the 42nd Max Oph\u00fcls Film Festival<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Film Festival<\/strong>\u00a0Braunschweig<\/strong> and the the Film Festival Neisse<\/strong> also have awarded Sara Fazilat\u00a0<\/strong>her for her acting.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]In addition to the First Steps Award<\/strong> in the \u201eNo Fear<\/strong>\u201c category for the production, \u201cNico<\/strong>\u201d also won the QueerScope Debut Film Award<\/strong>, the Debut Film Award<\/em><\/strong> of the 43rd Biberach Film Festival<\/strong> and the feature film competition<\/em><\/strong> of the Mainz Film Festival<\/strong>.\u00a0With her second feature film, \u201cMotherland<\/strong>\u201d (working title), Eline Gehring<\/strong> completes her studies at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin<\/strong>.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1561290391124{border-right-width: -15px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”68216″ img_size=”full” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”64003″ img_size=”full” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1581030319933{margin-top: 15px !important;margin-bottom: 36px !important;background-color: #efefef !important;}”]