Attenberg
Athina Rachel Tsangari
»I made a film about four people who happen to be at the same place for a short period of time. Three people who become four and then two. Three, of course, being the only perfect number in any relation.«
– Athina Rachel Tsangari
Marina is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance. Instead she chooses to observe it through the songs of Suicide and Alan Vega, the mammal documentaries of Sir David Attenborough, and the sex-education lessons she receives from her only friend, Bella.
A stranger comes to town and challenges her to a table football duel, on her own table. Her father meanwhile ritualistically prepares for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be »overrated«. Caught between the two men and her collaborator, Bella, Marina investigates the wondrous mystery of the human fauna.
German premiere
Awards for ›Attenberg‹
Coppa Volpi für Ariane Labed als beste Schauspielerin, Biennale da Venezia 2010 | Special Jury Award, Silberner Alexander, Thessaloniki Film Festival 2010 | New Voices International Feature Competition, Whistler Film Festival 2010
Athina Rachel Tsangari
The auteur filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari is a figurehead of new Greek cinema. She studied performing arts and film directing in Thessaloniki, New York and Austin, Texas. Her debut feature film The Slow Business of Going is part of the permanent collection at MoMA. She directed the videos for the opening of the 2004 Olympics in Athens and was the lead director on the BBC2/HBO Max series Trigonometry. She produced films such as Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth. Lanthimos was the producer of her much-acclaimed feature film Attenberg, winner of the 2010 feature film award in Dortmund. Tsangari has taught film at Harvard, Austin and Le Fresnoy. This is her third entry in the Dortmund competition section.
Films by Athina Rachel Tsangari
Chevalier 2015, Borgia 2014, 24 Frames per Century 2013, The Capsule 2012, Attenberg 2010, The Slow Business of Going 2001
