LONIG & HAVENDEL
LONEY & HAVENDER
Performance
Trailer
To attend vocational school and experience the magic of winter, Trúc moves from Vietnam to a small town in the Ore Mountains. Fascinated by the forests, mountains, and snow yet ridiculed by her classmates, she loses herself in the darkness of the tunnels during a tour of a mine – and ends up in a parallel world that much resembles her own; only the people there are different. She encounters Duc, whose parents own the local Vietnamese takeaway restaurant, as well as a mysterious mountain spirit. Employing calm, precise imagery, Claudia Tuyết Scheffel interweaves her own experiences of alienation, everyday racism, and familial pressure with magical realism. Amidst the brusque characters, poetic images of nature, and a mounting sense of threat, a film emerges that speaks in equal measure of home and foreign lands – and asks questions, the implications of which extend far beyond the Ore Mountains.
Presented by the Max Ophüls Film Festival.
Tue 04.11. I 18:30 I WELTSPIEGEL GROSSER SAAL I original version with English and German subtitles
Wed 05.11. I 13:00 I WELTSPIEGEL SAAL 2 I original version with English and German subtitles
Claudia Tuyết Scheffel
Yunus Çağ Köylü
Nicola Sulis, Ki Bui
Nele Seifert, Babette Sperling, Pia Kopprasch
Florian Illing
Tri Ân Bùi, Nano Nguyễn,
Bijan Benjamin, Jonas Barnitzke, Jördis Herrmann, Niklas Niki Wetzel, Vy Lưu, Long Đặng Ngọc, Lan Pham Thị
Claudia Tuyết Scheffel - Claudia Tuyết Scheffel was born in 1995 to a Vietnamese mother and a German father in Germany. She studied film at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg where she graduated with her first feature film „Lonig & Havendel“. In 2021 she published her first novel „Scherben im Plateau“.
