Erwin

Jan Soldat 2020, documentary, 16’10“
miniDV, 4:3, 25fps, mono, german with engl. Sub.

Synopsis

„Erwin has everything he needs in his caravan: Internet, bed, refrigerator, coffee machine. However, he rarely stays in the house next door, which also belongs to him. Filmmaker Jan Soldat comes to visit him. And learns not only of Erwin’s sexual preferences, but also of his two great loved ones, the relationship with his parents, his fears. As in many of Soldat’s earlier works, the topic of sexuality in “Erwin” enables an immediate narrative addition. An intimate conversation in a confined space, undisguised and literally naked.“
(Carolin Weidner, film journalist)

Team

Idea
Cinematography
Editing
Sound Mixing
Subtitles
Sales & Distribution
with

Jan Soldat, Erwin
Jan Soldat
Jan Soldat
Lorenz Fischer / lorenzfischer.de
Alex Demetriou / queersubs.weebly.com
sixpackfilm / sixpackfilm.com
Erwin

Screenings

Diagonale ’20 / Odense International Film Festival / Sicilia Queer Filmfest / Belvedere 21 Museum Vienna / 19th Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival / 24th Mix Mexico Cine Y Diversidad Sexual / 63rd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film / 8th Porny Days Zurich / London Short Film Festival / 23rd Mecal Pro Barcelona ISAFF / Courts Mais Trash Brussels Independent SFF / Training Fantasia Krasnodar Russia / Vienna Shorts / 45th Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt / Leiden Shorts / 17th Achtung Berlin / 18th Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg / 35K Kino Berlin / 31st Oslo Fusion Intl. Film Festival / Queer Mais Trash Brussels / Hacker Porn Film Festival Rome / Flensburger Kurzfilmtage / UT Connewitz Leipzig / Shortcutz Berlin / 6th Diametrale Innsbruck / 3rd San Francisco PornFilmFestival

Awards

Special Mention Sicilia Queer Filmfestival
Honorable Mention Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival
Silver Dove – Best German Short Documentary 63rd Dok Leipzig
Special Mention Achtung Berlin
Prädikat „Wertvoll“ – Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung

Critic

Exposure as self-determination and making contact
(SixpackFilm)
Looking for naked truth
(ubiquarian)
Wohnwagenträume
(Kreuzer Leipzig)
Einfühlsames Befremden
(Kreuzer Leipzig)
Herzlich, vielschichtig
(critic.de)
Die Freiheit der Eigenproduktion
(Filmdienst)
Merkwürdig, ruhig, zugewandt
(Matthias Dell/ Deutschlandfunk Kultur)
Zwischen Intimität und Distanz
(Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung)
German Short Films – Cannes Edition