Once and for real - film premiere at the Grenzland-Filmtage Selb

What love makes us do: with ONCE AND FOR REAL the multi-award-winning German independent and super-low-budget film director Holger Borggrefe has made an entertaining and profound film about falling in love.

This cheerful study of relationships and how they shape us will be premiered at the Grenzland-Filmtage Selb in April 2024 (on April 5 at 8 pm and April 6 at 5.30 pm). Playfully interlaced levels show the momentous, small inadequacies in interpersonal relationships that run as a common thread through the life of the main character Anton (Tillmann Eckhardt).

His friend Moritz (Manuel Leuchtenberg) committed suicide at the age of 19 and at his grave Anton vows to fall in love once at least for real. From then on, "Bambi", as Moritz is called, supports him - as a ghost- in his search for the right person to fall in love with. He drives him on, torments him and slowly his story unfolds.

The actors impress with precise character studies, oscillating between comedy and tragedy, all wrapped up in rather ordinary, everyday scenes - until "Bambi" makes a fateful decision...

Negotiations and submissions for further screenings and festival participations are of course already underway. These include such promising contacts as the Brittany International Film Festival/Festival International du Film de Bretagne, where Borggrefe's last film (TWO IS A MAGIC NUMBER) won the prize for Best European Screenplay in 2021, and the Festival of Cinema NYC, where the aforementioned last film was awarded the prize for Best Feature Narrative in 2021.

At the Grenzland Filmtage Selb, in addition to juried prizes, there is also an audience award. Tickets are only available at the box office half an hour before the start of the screening (and only in cash). More at grenzlandfilmtage-selb.de.

ONCE AND FOR REAL, D, 2023, 99 min. dir: Holger Borggrefe. With: Tillmann Eckardt, Manuel Leuchtenberg, Charlotte Stoiber, Lisa Oertel, Rebekka Reinholz, Anna Graenzer, Rouven Blessing, Theresa Traser.

The agency Soundview Media Partners/USA has again expressed interest in the worldwide VOD-DISTRIBUTION of ONCE AND FOR REAL. A cinema tour is planned for September 2024 in Munich, Berlin, Landsberg and elsewhere. AMAZON PRIME is expected to show the film in Germany from November 2024.

The film was shot in Landsberg + surrounding area (Upper Bavaria). The production cost 112,000 EU, which is less than a tenth of an average Tatort budget. No broadcaster or film funding was involved.

This is the second feature film from www.theater-werkmuenchen.de: The first feature film TWO IS A MAGIC NUMBER (2020, 84 min.), produced as part of the advanced training program "Praxis Spielfilm" (for professions in front of and behind the camera), won over 20 film awards and nominations worldwide - Worldwide VOD distribution agency: Soundview Media Partners/USA, Amazon Prime premiere 11/2022 in Germany).

ONCE AND FOR REAL was also produced as part of the advanced training program Praxis Spielfilm (for professions in front of and behind the camera).

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