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Sebastian Brameshuber

Biography

Sebastian Brameshuber (*1981) shows his films at festivals like Berlinale, Viennale, Cinéma du réel, FIDMarseille, BAFICI, at venues like Lincoln Center NY, Anthology Film Archives NY, TIFF Cinematheque Toronto or Arsenal Berlin. Following Muezzin (2009) and And There We Are, in the Middle (2014), his third feature-length film Movements of a Nearby Mountain was released in 2019, for which he was awarded the Grand Prix Cinéma du réel.

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Vita
Born
1981, Gmunden
Education
University of Applied Arts Vienna — Scenography for stage and film, Le Fresnoy — studio national des arts contemporains
Occupation
Regisseur, Autor
Awards
2020
Upper Austrian State Cultural Award for Film
2020
Nomination Austrian Film Awards, Best Documentary
2019
Grand Prix Cinéma du réel
2019
3sat Documentary Award, Duisburg Film Week
2019
Special Jury Prize, Vienna Film Awards
2019
Open City Award, Open City Documentary Festival, London
2019
Local Artist Award, Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz
2019
Best Cinematography Feature Film, Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film, Graz
2016
Important Cinematic Work, Alternative Film/​Video Festival, Belgrad
2015
Nomination Golden Bear, Berlinale Shorts
2015
Best Austrian Short Film, VIS Vienna Shorts
2015
Nomination Silver Eye Award, East Silver Market Jihlava
2015
Working Worlds Award, Chamber of Labor Salzburg
2015
Nomination Austrian Film Awards, Best Documentary
2010
Open Eyes Award, Medfilm Festival Rome
Filmography
2019
Movements of a Nearby Mountain, Dokumentarfilm, 86 min, Regie
2014
And There We Are, in the Middle, Dokumentarfilm, 91 min, Regie
2014
Of Stains, Scrap and Tires, Dokumentarfilm, 19 min, Regie
2009
Muezzin, 85 min, Regie, Buch
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Movements of a Nearby Mountain (2019)
Movements of a Nearby Mountain
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Movements of a Nearby Mountain (2019)
Movements of a Nearby Mountain
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Movements of a Nearby Mountain (2019)
Movements of a Nearby Mountain
Trailer: MOVEMENTS OF A NEARBY MOUNTAIN by Sebastian Brameshuber (AT/FR-2019)
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Movements of a Nearby Mountain (2019)
Movements of a Nearby Mountain
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Movements of a Nearby Mountain (2019)
Movements of a Nearby Mountain
Sebastian Brameshuber
And There We Are, in the Middle (2014)
And There We Are, in the Middle
Sebastian Brameshuber
And There We Are, in the Middle (2014)
And There We Are, in the Middle
Sebastian Brameshuber
And There We Are, in the Middle (2014)
And There We Are, in the Middle
Und in der Mitte, da sind wir - Trailer Österreich
Sebastian Brameshuber
And There We Are, in the Middle (2014)
And There We Are, in the Middle
Sebastian Brameshuber
And There We Are, in the Middle (2014)
And There We Are, in the Middle
Sebastian Brameshuber
Of Stains, Scrap and Tires (2014)
Of Stains, Scrap and Tires
Sebastian Brameshuber
Of Stains, Scrap and Tires (2014)
Of Stains, Scrap and Tires
Sebastian Brameshuber
Of Stains, Scrap and Tires (2014)
Of Stains, Scrap and Tires
Sebastian Brameshuber
Muezzin (2009)
Muezzin
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Muezzin (2009)
Muezzin
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Muezzin (2009)
Muezzin
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Muezzin (2009)
Muezzin
Films

Movements of a Nearby Mountain (2019)

AT/FR

Dokumentarfilm

86 min

Mischief Films, Sebastian Brameshuber, Panama Film

Movements of a Nearby Mountain (2019)

Synopsis

In a remote, abandoned industrial site near a centuries-old ore mine in the Austrian Alps, a self-taught mechanic runs a business exporting used cars to his native Nigeria. As he pursues his lonely day-to-day activities with wondrous serenity, past, present and future begin to overlap, and memories of a lost friendship resurface against the backdrop of a mysterious promise of everlasting resources. 

Info
Regie
Sebastian Brameshuber
Kamera
Klemens Hufnagl, Jenny Lou Ziegel
Schnitt
Dane Komljen, Sebastian Brameshuber
Produktion
Ralph Wieser, David Bohun, Sebastian Brameshuber
Ton
Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer
Premiere International
16. March 2019 — Cinéma du Réel, Paris, 2019 
Premiere Österreich
19. March 2019 — Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, 2019 
Kinostart
27. September 2019
Awards
Grand Prix, Cinéma du Réel, Paris, 2019
Best Cinematography Feature Film, Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, 2019
Local Artist Award, Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz, Austria, 2019
Open City Award, Open City Documentary Festival, London, 2019
3sat Documentary Award, Duisburg Film Week, 2019
Special Jury Prize, Vienna Film Awards, 2019
The Political Film Award, Filmfest Hamburg, 2019
Nominated for Best Documentary”, Austrian Film Award, 2020

And There We Are, in the Middle (2014)

AT

Dokumentarfilm

91 min

KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriel Production

And There We Are, in the Middle (2014)

Synopsis

Andi plays the electric guitar and is mad about guns. Michi hopes his Doc Martens show the right political stance. Ramona is looking for an apprenticeship and has her heart set on a lip piercing. These three 15-year-olds live in Ebensee, a village in Austria where in 2009 the annual memorial ceremony at the former concentration camp was disrupted by a group of youths with air rifles. Michi’s computer contains both a traditional folk song about his home village and a heavy punk track. As we see him impersonating Michael Jackson, taking part in a procession in lederhosen and felt hat and brandishing a rattle, or joking about a piece of anti-Nazi graffiti, a trenchant image takes shape of how complicated self-discovery and personality formation can be for adolescents; the distance between the most divergent models for identity is remarkably small. Combining beautifully shot moments from the teenagers’s day-to-day lives over the course of a year and statements from them and their parents about the treatment of the Nazi period, the film also outlines what sensitivities the official culture of remembrance is met with. And not just in Ebensee. (Birgit Kohler, Berlinale Forum)

Info
Regie
Sebastian Brameshuber
Kamera
Klemens Hufnagl
Ton
Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson
Schnitt
Emily Artmann, Sebastian Brameshuber, Elke Groen
Produktion
Gabriele Kranzelbinder
Premiere International
30. November ‑0001 — Berlinale Forum, 2014 
Premiere Österreich
30. November ‑0001 — Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, 2014 
Kinostart
30. November -0001
Awards
Nominiert als Bester Dokumentarfilm”, Österreichischer Filmpreis, 2015

Of Stains, Scrap and Tires (2014)

AT/FR

Dokumentarfilm

19 min

KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production, Le Fresnoy

Of Stains, Scrap and Tires (2014)

Synopsis

Of Stains, Scrap & Tires is a calm, documentary miniature that chooses the auto export business of three young Nigerians in the Erzberg region as a point of association and departure for formulating something more fundamental about the first and third worlds, movement and standstill, business, space, and freedom. 

Info
Regie
Sebastian Brameshuber
Buch
Sebastian Brameshuber
Kamera
Klemens Hufnagl
Ton
Matthias Kassmannhuber
Schnitt
Sebastian Brameshuber
Produktion
Sebastian Brameshuber, Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Le Fresnoy
Premiere International
1. February 2015 — Berlinale Shorts 
Premiere Österreich
10. October 2014 — Viennale 
Kinostart
30. November -0001
Awards
Nominated for Golden Bear”, Berlinale Shorts, 2015
Best Austrian Short Film, VIS Vienna Shorts, 2015
Nominated for Silver Eye Award, East Silver Market, Jihlava, 2015
Working Worlds Award, Chamber of Labor Salzburg, 2014

Muezzin (2009)

AT/TR

85 min

Sebastian Brameshuber, KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Productions, David Bohun

Muezzin (2009)

Synopsis

From 2944 mosques Istanbul’s muezzins call the people to prayer five times a day. Once a year, the best among them is determined in a nationwide contest. The film follows the course of the competition along a handful of participants. One repeatedly hears the variations and interpretations of a chant, reminder of the duty of prayer. A tradition becomes visible in which religious and competitive spirit and the search for a voice are worked through performatively year after year as a vanity fair in an exclusively male universe.

Info
Regie
Sebastian Brameshuber
Buch
Sebastian Brameshuber
Kamera
Govinda van Maele, Sebastian Brameshuber
Ton
Marco Zinz
Schnitt
Sebastian Brameshuber, Gokce Ince
Produktion
Sebastian Brameshuber, KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production, David Bohun
Premiere International
4. July 2009 — Karlovy Vary Film Festival 
Premiere Österreich
20. April 2009 — Crossing Europe Film Festival 
Kinostart
15. June 2010
Awards
Nomination Best Documentary, Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 2009
Nomination Best Documentary, Sarajevo Film Festival, 2009
Nomination Best Documentary, Dokufest Prizren, 2009
Opening Film, Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz, 2009
Open Eyes Award, Medfilm Festival Rome, Italy, 2010
Opening Film, Documentary Film Week Hamburg, 2010
Sebastian Brameshuber