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Sand und Blut

Sand and Blood

Matthias Krepp, Angelika Spangel
Social networks allow refugees to follow the actions and crimes happening in their countries in real time. Sand and Blood is a montage of amateur videos from various online platforms, narrated by refugees now living in Austria. This formal approach offers a new and intimate perspective on Syria and Iraq's recent history: a montage of haunting images of devastation, fear, and hatred.
www.sandundblut.at
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Technical Data
Running time: 90
Format: digital
Screen ratio: 1:2.39
Language spoken: Arabic, English
Production year: 2017
Contact: Leni Gruber
tel +43 664 185 02 99
leni-gruber@gmx.at
Credits
Director(s): Matthias Krepp, Angelika Spangel
Writer(s): Matthias Krepp, Angelika Spangel
Cinematography: Found Footage
Editing: Matthias Krepp, Angelika Spangel
Producer: Leni Gruber
Premiere:
August 6, 2017
Locarno (Out of Competition)
Awards (selection): Silver Eye Award (Jihlava)
Production company
Filmakademie Wien
Metternichgasse 12
1030 Vienna
tel:+43 1 711 552 902
weidinger-a@mdw.ac.at
www.mdw.ac.at
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Filmotor
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Matthias Krepp, Angelika Spangel

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First films by Astrid J. Ofner and Matthias Krepp at LOCARNO

LOCARNO has announced its 70th program with two first feature films and one co-production by Austrian filmmakers and producers:
– FAREWELL TO THE  PARENTS  by Astrid Johanna Ofner (Cineasti del Presente) 
– SAND AND BLOOD by Matthias Krepp (Out of Competition)
– THE ICEMAN by Felix Randau (Piazza Grande)
INTERVIEW
DE – EN

«It was always a balancing act.»

Matthias Krepp and Angelika Spangel have assembled video material from digital channels with commentaries and accounts from Iraqi and Syrian refugees now living in Austria, forming a collage about the war, SAND AND BLOOD is an attempt to employ the gripping transposition of images and the voices of witnesses to convey some sense of the unimaginable reality of everyday life dominated by violence.
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Three international premieres at Filmtage HOF

Julian Pölsler’s new Marlen Haushofer adaptation KILLING STELLA (after The Wall in 2012, Flavio Marchetti’s documentary ANIMALS AND OTHER PEOPLE and GATEKEEPER by Lawrence Tooley and Loretta Pflaum are the three new films made in Austria celebrating their international premiere at the 51st HOFER Filmtage (October 24 to 29)
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„It is a heart-taking, crude and tough film“

The JIHLAVA Documentary Festival grants the Silver Eye Award to SAND AND BLOOD by Matthias Krepp and Angelika Spangel. The jury stated, "The film presents a story about Iraqi and Syrian war conflicts and its refugees by using self-shot images and home videos ...
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IDFA Amsterdam celebrates 30th edition with a double for  UNTITLED

Michael Glawogger’s images from his last, uncompleted journey brought to a powerful and poetic essay by Monika Willi is not only part of the IDFA 2017 Masters-selection, UNTITLED is Victor Kossanovsky’s pick for the anniversary sidebar The Visual Voice. Also at IDFA: SAND AND BLOOD by Mathias Krepp and Angelika Spangel in the student documentary competition.
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Docu/Life Award for SAND AND BLOOD

„Great cinema is able to unfold the hidden aspects of human life, by projecting light where there are shadows,“ stated the jury at the KIEV Human Rights Documentary Film Festival where SAND AND BLOOD by Matthias Krepp and Angelika Spangel stood out in the Docu/Life competition.
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Two awards at the Munich DOKfest

I’M A BAD GUY by Susanne Freund is the winner of the VIKTOR DOK.deutsch, for the best German-language documentary. A film, as the jury stated, „that allows us to look into an abyss that could be our own“. The highly topical SAND AND BLOOD by Matthias Krepp & Angelika Spangel bagged the Megaherz Student Award.
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SAND AND BLOOD Best documentary at Espinho

Matthias Krepp’s  and Angelika Spangel’s directorial debut SAND AND BLOOD was selected Best feature-length documentary at the Espinho Fest  – New Directors | New Films Festival
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... and further more prizes to Austrian docs

The JIHLAVA Testimony On Nature-section honors WELCOME TO SODOM as its most outstanding contribution, SAND AND BLOOD receives a Special Mention at the Romanian ASTRA Festival and UTOPIA REVISITED by Kurt Langbein wins the Grande Prémio at CINEECO Festival at Serra da Estrella.

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