Film Programme
TIDELANDERS
fiction
Germany, 2009, 12'18
Director: Max Zähle
Producer: Anja Schmuck
Director of photography: Sin Huh
Writer: Florian Siegrist
Composer: Kriton Klingler-Ioannides
Editor: Oliver Gieth
Synopsis: The Kröger family has drifted apart. To bring everyone together again, mother Anne organises a family trip to the mudlands for her husband's birthday. However, mutual lack of understanding turns the trip into a bizarre odyssey, at the end of which the family pulls together in spite of all their differences ... until the next fight breaks out.
Director: Max Zähle
Max Zähle was born in Celle in 1977. After his graduation (Abitur) in 1997, he moved to Hamburg for a film internship. He worked as video operator, location manager, and first assistant director on various film sets. At the same time, he studied „audio and visual media communication“ at the HAMM in Hamburg from which he graduated in 2002. Subsequently, he successfully completed an apprenticeship as film editor at the Handelskammer Hamburg.