SALIDAS (meaning ‘departures’ in English) is a fictional dance film which tells the story of Giralda, an undertaker who accompanies deceased human beings into their afterlife.
Interpreted with the means of Spanish flamenco dance and music and set at an old East German ship canal lift, the film creates an associative fusion between Northern and Southern Europe, movement and silence, and farewells and eternity.
Curated by Omar Rajeh as part of Spaces of Encounter
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Michael Fetter Nathansky
Screenwriter & Director
Credie Sophie Linnenbaum
Michael Fetter Nathansky (he/him)
Screenwriter & Director
Germany
Michael Fetter Nathansky was born in Cologne in 1993. He spent his youth in Germany and Spain. Since 2013, he studies Directing at the Film University KONRAD WOLF Babelsberg.
His graduation film Gabi premiered at the 67th Berlinale in the section Perspektive Deutsches Kino and won the German Short Film Award 2017. On top of that, in the same year, Michael was nominated for the young talents award (Nachwuchspreis) of Studio Hamburg as well as he won the young talents award of federal state North Rhine-Westphalia.
In 2018 he co-founded with Virginia Martin and Anna-Sophie Philippi the production company Contando Films with which he realised his master’s degree film Sag du es mir (You Tell Me). In 2019 the feature film premiered at the Festival of German Film in Ludwigshafen where it won the main award. In the same year, Michael was nominated for the First Steps Award. The film was also awarded at the festivals in Lünen, Mainz and Ahrenshoop and started in cinemas in 2020. Michael’s short documentary Un cuento sin ti (A Story Without You) premiered in 2019 at the Duisburger Filmwoche and received the main award in the category “Short Films and Medium Length”
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Cast +
- Anna Castillo
Worker Giralda - Christiane "La Mona"
Mother - Ñusta Kolter Irazoque
Sister - Elba Sadek
Dead Sister - Salvador Vega Carrasco "Rubin de la Ana", Antonio Piñera Moreno "Pumiki"
Colleagues - Jonas Ludwig Walter
Dead Man
Crew +
- Michael Fetter Nathansky
Screenwriter & Director - Virginia Martin
Creative Producer - Victoria Martin, Anna-Sophie Philipi, Michael Fetter Nathansky (Contando Films)
Producers - Christiane "La Mona"
Choreographic Consultation & Casting - Valentin Selmke
Director of Photography - Kai Eiermann
Editor - Lorenz Fischer
Sound Design & Mixing - Alexandra Praet
Original Sound - Jonathan Saal
Production Design - Julia Kneusels
Costume Design - Salvador Vega Carrasco "Rubin de la Ana"
Male Vocalist - Antonio Piñera Moreno "Pumiki"
Percussionist - Elba Sadek
Female Vocalist
Credits +
A Contando Films production
Created as part of the short film project Europe in Film
Funded by the German Federal Foreign Office
On the occasion of the German EU Council Presidency 2020
Conducted by German Film Academy Production
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