SLEEP
A Film by Michael Venus
FEATURE
2020
102 MIN
Marlene, a woman plagued by horrific dreams, suffers a breakdown in a remote village. As her daughter Mona follows, she comes upon a well-kept family secret and an old curse that ultimately threatens her life – a never-ending nightmare.
A Junafilm Production, Co-produced by ZDF – Das kleine Fernsehspiel, funded by Filmfund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Nordmedia – Film and Media Company Lower Saxony Bremen, German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM), German Federal Film Fund (DFFF)
Director: Michael Venus
Writer: Thomas Friedrich, Michael Venus
Producer: Verena Gräfe-Höft
Casting: Marion Haack
Editor: Silke Olthoff
DoP: Marius von Felbert
Production Design: Lena Schønemann
Costume: Petra Kilian
Hair and Makeup: Katharina Heep, Tatjana Kraus
Music: Sebastian Damerius, Johannes Lehniger
Sound: Anders Wasserfall
With Gro Swantje Kohlhof, Sandra Hüller, August Schmölzer, Marion Kracht, et al.
Distributor: Edition Salzgeber (Germany), Arrow Video (Ireland, Canada, United Kingdom, Canada)
World Sales: Global Screen
AWARDS
Grimme Award 2023 – Student Jury Award
Anomaly-The Rochester Genre Film Festival 2020 – Audience Award
Gérardmer Fantastic Film Festival – Prix du Jury
Hardline Festival – 2. Place Golden Razor
Nominated for the GWFF Award – Best First Feature Film
Nominated for the German Film Critics Award – Best Debut, Best Script, Best Editing
etc.
FESTIVALS
World premiere at Berlinale 2020 – Perspektive Deutsches Kino, Chicago International Film Festival, HARD:LINE Film Festival, Splat! FilmFest, Gérardmer Fantastic Film Festival, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Imagine Film Festival, Haapsalu Horror- und Fantasy Filmfestival, Kurja Polt Genre Film Festival, Lighthouse International Film Festival, Droste Festival, Kino! Germany Now!, Zurich Film Festival, TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest, Filmfest Braunschweig, Cairo International Film Festival, Festival of German Films in China, German Currents Los Angeles, FILMZ Festival des deutschen Kinos, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Lund Fantastic Film Festival, Helsinki International Film Festival, SLASH Filmfestival, Fantasia Film Festival, Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, etc.