David wants to fly

2010

A Documentary Film by David Sieveking

A LICHTBLICK FILM and LICHTBLICK MEDIA Production.

in co-production with Dschoint Ventschr (CH) and Navigator Film (AU),
in co-production with BR, arte, SF und ORF.
with support from Filmstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Kuratorium junger deutscher Film, FFA, DFFF, BAK, Zürcher Filmstiftung, ÖFI, Land Niederösterreich.

Distributors: Neue Visionen (Deutschland), Praesens (Schweiz), Poool (Österreich)

World Sales: Autlook Filmsales

SYNOPSIS:

In this riveting documentary, David Sieveking, looking for artistic inspiration, decides to take the advice of his filmmaking idol David Lynch and enters the world of transcendental meditation (TM). TM’s founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi came to Hollywood in the late 1950s, securing a great many prominent followers such as The Beatles or Mia Farrow. David Sieveking participates in an expensive meditation training course, is give a personal mantra, and tries his best to fly like a real yogi. But before long, an increasing number of inconsistencies emerge.

TEAM:

• Writer/Director: David Sieveking

• Producers: Martin Heisler I Carl-Ludwig Rettinger

• Co-Producer Swiss: Werner Schweizer

• Co-Producer Austria: Johannes Rosenberger

• Commissioning Editors: Jochen Kölsch I Monika Lobkowicz (BR/arte) Claudia Gladziejewski (BR)

• Photography: Adrian Stähli

• Film Editor: Martin Kayser-Landwehr

• Music: Karl Stirner

• Sound Mixer: Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer

• Re-Recording Mixers: Björn Wiese, Stefan Soltau
  
  

PREMIERE:

Berlinale 2010,
Opening Film of “Panorama Dokumente”

FESTIVALS 2010

• Diagonale, Festival des österreichischen Films Graz, Österreich

• Visions du Réel - Festival international de cinema Nyon, Frankreich

• BAFICI - Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independente, Argentinien

• DOK.fest München

• Hotdocs Toronto, Kanada

• Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

• Planete Doc Review Film Festival Warschau, Polen

• Transilvania International Film Festival, Rumänien

• All About Freedom Festival, Polen

• Moscow International Film Festival, Russland

• Documentarist, Türkei

• Message to Man St. Petersburg, Russland

• Dokufest Kosovo

• Vukovar Film Festival, Kroatien

• Cambridge FF, UK

• Camden Film Festival, UK

• Vancouver International Film Festival, Kanada

• Der Film-Festival, Tschechische Republik

• Kaunas International Film Festival, Litauen

• Festival du nouveau cinema, Kanada

• Bergen International Film Festival, Norwegen

• Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Brasilien

• CPH:DOX, Dänemark

• Festival dei popoli Florence, Italien

• Aarhus Film Festival, Dänemark

• Cork Film Festival, Irland

• IDFA Amsterdam, Niederlande

• Palm Springs International Film Festival, USA

• German Gems San Francisco, USA