EMBRACE – the desire to be close! A new Tango documentary!

Bittersweet are the milonga nights. Sometimes she dances the night away full of bliss, sometimes he sits on the edge of the dancefloor, bored of himself and the others around. Or she feels excluded, not good enough. However, none of them can stop going once, twice or more per week to see what the Tango will do to them today!
All protagonists have their own strategies to happiness. Helena paints her shoes golden to get all dressed up. Christian is able to dance worldwide as he chose a job with international meetings. Ruben organizes his own milongas, so he doesn’t have to follow the usual etiquette. And while Susanna asks women to dance with, Joscha needs to cultivate a certain arrogance to not be overwhelmed by too many people who know him as a ‘tango-star’.
This longing for closeness and intimacy that the protagonists speak of, is part of every human, and it is this universal issue that is explored through the microcosm of the Tango world.

The film is an artistic documentation of the joys and sorrows, creative activities and ordinary lives of tango dancers in Freiburg. It becomes clear that their lives revolve around tango.
Freiburg is representative of many small cities in Europe and the issues the dancers deal with are largely the same anywhere. With the money of the cultural office in Freiburg (and own recources) we could film enough to start with the editing of a short film.

We want to submit the finished film to short film festivals.
Tango schools and organizers of marathons can order the film for screenings.
We hope to show the film as a supporting film in cinemas and we also want to sell it to a local TV station.

This short film stands by itself and at the same time is a taster for the longer cinema version we also hope to produce.

The film will be especially interesting for tango dancers, because besides expressing the beauty of tango, it also deals with the heartache.
Still, the humour, the sensuality and the depth of experience will also reach those who do not dance.

The shooting for the short film is finished! The feedback for my first screening of 30 min footage in the ‘Kommunales Kino’ Freiburg was tremendous and encouraged me to already produce a short film and not wait any longer to finish funding for the 90 min film, as I can’t tell how much longer it will take.
The protagonists are great and the pictures very beautiful. It is a serious topic, which we have wrapped in a beautiful way.

Embrace is my first film. Everybody who supports it, supports me as a young film maker!

With the funded money we will recut the work-in-progress version of the film in a completed 30 min short film version. The money will pay for editing, sound design, colour correction and translation into English.