• Documentary
  • Children

Desert Kids

Filmplakat für "Desert Kids" mit zwei Jungen auf Eseln in einer trockenen, hügeligen Landschaft, im Hintergrund Kamele auf braunem Grasland, mit blauem Titeltext und Produktionsinformationen auf beigem Hintergrund.

A documentary about young adults growing up in rural Israel. The Negev Desert not only captures visitors with ist spectacular landscape, it’s also a place of opposites and extremes, a home between two cultures. But both cultures are characterized by strong values, and in both worlds the young people share a feeling of confinement. Can they form their own identity?

Data

Category
Documentary, Children
Financing
Nationaler Film
Format
DCP, 80 Min
Release
24.02.2017
Distribution
Waystone Film KG
Admissions
572
Funding Film Institute
134.000 €
Share of total production costs
52 %
International funding

Zukunftsfonds der Republik Österreich

Funding program
ÖFI
first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service
22.04.2018
Viewers
115.000
Film location
Israel
Shooting time
November 2014 - August 2015
Days of shooting
25
Completion
Winter 2015/2016
Funding institutions Austria
Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Land Salzburg (Kultur)
Credits
Production
Plan C Filmproduktion OG
Producer
Claudia Wohlgenannt
Director
Michael Pfeifenberger
Script-concept
Wolfgang Stahl, Michael Pfeifenberger
DOP
Meni Elias
Editor
Petra Zöpnek
Sound engineer
Haim Meir
Sound design
David Almeida Ribeiro
Production manager
Hanne Lassl