KIKI & TIGER
KIKI & TIGER
1999. Kiki, an Albanian who has fled from Kosovo and the Serbian army, is living illegally in Germany. His friend Tiger, a Serb who grew up in Germany and has no time for the nationalism of his compatriots, gives him a place to stay. The pair enthusiastically check out the nightlife in Stuttgart, and toil in a factory during the day. But jealousy and intrigues poison the atmosphere between them, and the ticking time-bomb eventually goes off. A drama of friendship based on fact, and a milieu study of the shadowy world of illegal refugees at the same time.
35mm | Farbe / colour
Alexander Buresch, Edin Hinrichs-Hadžimahović, Alain Gsponer
Matthias Fleischer
Rüdiger Fleck, Michael Diehl
Andreas Marquard
Marius Lange
Lenn Kudrjawizki, Stipe Erceg, Monika Ebert, Marek Wlodarczyk
Schweizer Fernsehen DRS
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Alain Gsponer - born 1976 in Zurich. Studied audiovisual design in Bern, then attended the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, where KIKI & TIGER was his graduation film. He ran a cinema and worked as a radio journalist. His film ROSE won the Eastman-Förderpreis in 2005.
BALLJAMMER (1996, short, animation)
ROTER ADI (1997, short, doc)
HEIDI (1998, short, animation)
ARIA (1998, short)
POLEN (1999)
X FÜR U (2000, short)
HINTER DEM BERG (2001)
ROSE (2005)
DAS WAHRE LEBEN (2006)