Autumn gold / Jesenje zlato
Herbstgold
In Competition > Documentaries
Film info| Country | Germany, Austria | Year | 2010. |
| Director | Jan Tenhaven Godina | Runtime | 94 min |
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Autumn gold tells the life-affirming stories of five senior athletes who all have one goal: to take part in the track and field section of the World Masters Championships 2009 in Finland.
The biggest challenge they face is their age: all five athletes are between 82 and 100 years old. ‘These five individuals are in a defiant race against time and throw a very ‘YES-to-life’ light on growing old in various countries.
How do these senior citizens deal with everyday life? What roles do love and sexuality play? What does society think of them? Why is sport so important to them?
ABOUT DIRECTOR
Jan Tenhaven is a writer and director for German public television and a lecturer at the Electronic Media School in Potsdam-Babelsberg. He started his journalistic career as a reporter and freelance writer for the daily newspaper WAZ and the weekly paper DIE ZEIT. He has been making documentaries for fifteen years. Besides „Autumn Gold“, his latest projects include the documentary „Why We Buy“ and „The War in Me“.
AWARDS
HOTDOCS 2010 - Filmmaker Award, Guangzhou INTERNATIONAL
DOCUMETARY FILM FESTIVAL 2010 - Grand prize of the Jury 2010
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM IDFA 2010 - Docu Award
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