Salidas (Spanish, departures) is a fictional dance film that tells the story of the undertaker Giralda, who transports the deceased to the afterlife. Translated into the language of Spanish flamenco dance and set in an old East German ship lift, the film creates an associative fusion between northern and southern Europe, movement and silence, farewell and eternity.
DIRECTOR
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Michael Fetter Nathansky
Michael Fetter Nathansky was born in Cologne in 1993 and spent his youth in Germany and Spain. He has been studying directing at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF since 2013. His bachelor's degree film Gabi premiered in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section at the 2017 Berlinale and won the German Short Film Award in the same year. Michael was also nominated for the Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award in 2017 and won the Young Talent Award of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2018, he founded the production company Contando Films together with Virginia Martin and Anna-Sophie Philippi, with which he realized his master's degree film Sag du es mir. The feature film premiered at the Festival des Deutschen Films Ludwigshafen in 2019, where it won the main prize. In the same year, Michael was nominated for the First Steps Award with the film. The film also won awards at the festivals in Lünen, Mainz and Ahrenshoop and was released in cinemas in 2020. Michael's documentary Un cuento sin ti premiered at the Duisburger Filmwoche in 2019, where it won the main prize.
