Back for Good

Deutschland 2015-2017 Spielfilm

Summary

Three women, one family: Monika the mother, Angie the older sister and Kiki the baby of the family. Angie is a reality-TV star who is doggedly clinging onto her fading career. Fresh out of rehab, she suddenly finds herself without any money, friends or a place to live and is condemned to returning to her mother in her hated dump of a hometown. Angie's teenage sister Kiki is also finding life tough-going. Due to her epilepsy, her mother Monika insists that she wears a freaky protective helmet.

 

The consequence: Kiki is ostracised and bullied, her life has long since become the hell from which her mother is trying to protect her. As Angie takes up residence on the air mattress beside Kiki's bed, she appears to be the perfect adviser to help Kiki struggle out of her social isolation and the two grow closer. What at first appears to be a catastrophe actually becomes a chance for all three women to change. "Back for Good" is a bittersweet ode to humanity – quietly hummed whilst an auto-tuned pop song blares out of the radio.

Source: 67. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)

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Credits

All Credits

Shoot

    • 03.11.2015 - 12.12.2015
Duration:
95 min
Format:
DCP, 1:2,39
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 09.10.2017, 172521, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 10.02.2017, Berlin, IFF - Perspektive Deutsches Kino;
Kinostart (DE): 31.05.2018

Titles

  • Originaltitel (DE) Back for Good

Versions

Original

Duration:
95 min
Format:
DCP, 1:2,39
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 09.10.2017, 172521, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 10.02.2017, Berlin, IFF - Perspektive Deutsches Kino;
Kinostart (DE): 31.05.2018

Awards

Günter Rohrbach Filmpreis 2018
  • Preis der Saarland Medien GmbH, Beste Regie
FBW 2018
  • Prädikat: besonders wertvoll
Filmkunstfest MV 2017
  • DEFA-Förderpreis
  • FIPRESCI-Preis
  • Nachwuchsdarstellerpreis