House With a Voice
TITLE
House With a Voice
DIRECTOR
Kristine Nrecaj, Birthe Templin
COUNTRY
Germany
YEAR
2024
DURATION
87′
GENRE
Documentary
House With a Voice
HOUSE WITH A VOICE tells the story of six Burrneshas who, for different reasons, have decided to take on the social role of men. They have done this to circumvent patriarchal structures, to avoid misogynistic attacks, to support the family economically, to avoid compelled marriage and to be free.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Kristine Nrecaj, Birthe Templin
Kristine Nrecaj was born in Bavaria and had Albanian roots. After graduating from high school, she studied theater and film at the Free University of Berlin. In 2003 she made the documentary film "Kosowo". In 2014, her fictional short film "Of Dogs and Lions" was screened at national and international film festivals. It received the award for best director and best female lead at the Kosovo Film Festival. She developed a script for a long fiction movie which was selected at "Debut im Ersten ". 2016, she started developing a feature-length documentary about Burrneshas in Albania. 2018 her movie "The sworn virgin and the Girl"was screened at national and international filmfestivals. 2020 she completed a training as a non-medical practitioner in psychotherapy. In 2021 she made the documentary "Noa-remembering against forgetting ", which themed the relationship between her daughter Noa and her mother suffering from dementia.Birthe Templin is an independent film director based in Berlin. After growing up in Northern Germany and Argentina she was educated in Filmmaking at the London Film Academy and Andzrej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw. She directed and partly produced with her production company ipanema film award winning fiction and documentary films for cinema, TV, Museums and educational platforms: Lübbos wife is waiting, What remains, The sworn virgin and the girl. Next to her current cinema documentary House with a voice she is preparing to change the format with a feature length fiction film.
- DirectorKristine Nrecaj, Birthe Templin
- ScreenplayKristine Nrecaj, Birthe Templin
- Cinematography Alfred Nrecaj
- Cast
- EditingEvelyn Rack
- Producer/s Katrin Springer
- Production Company
- Distributor/sStranger Films Sales Sales Agent France All Rights
- Project TitleHouse With a Voice
- Project TypeDocumentary
- Completion Date 1 January 2024
- Country of originGermany
- Country of filmingGermany
- LanguageAlbanian, English
- First-time Filmmaker Yes
- Student ProjectNo
Kristine Nrecaj, Birthe Templin
Kristine Nrecaj was born in Bavaria and had Albanian roots. After graduating from high school, she studied theater and film at the Free University of Berlin. In 2003 she made the documentary film "Kosowo". In 2014, her fictional short film "Of Dogs and Lions" was screened at national and international film festivals. It received the award for best director and best female lead at the Kosovo Film Festival. She developed a script for a long fiction movie which was selected at "Debut im Ersten ". 2016, she started developing a feature-length documentary about Burrneshas in Albania. 2018 her movie "The sworn virgin and the Girl"was screened at national and international filmfestivals. 2020 she completed a training as a non-medical practitioner in psychotherapy. In 2021 she made the documentary "Noa-remembering against forgetting ", which themed the relationship between her daughter Noa and her mother suffering from dementia.Birthe Templin is an independent film director based in Berlin. After growing up in Northern Germany and Argentina she was educated in Filmmaking at the London Film Academy and Andzrej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw. She directed and partly produced with her production company ipanema film award winning fiction and documentary films for cinema, TV, Museums and educational platforms: Lübbos wife is waiting, What remains, The sworn virgin and the girl. Next to her current cinema documentary House with a voice she is preparing to change the format with a feature length fiction film.
