Film Programme
Gitti Bader
documentary
Germany, 2010, 11'40''
Director: Daniel Lang
Producer: Daniel Lang
Director of photography: Andreas Bergmann
Writer: Daniel Lang
Editor: Daniel Lang
Synopsis: Gitti Bader is a woman who lives her life to the fullest. She works as a speech therapist, loves to dance and to swim and is an optimistic person. But because of her dwarfism, Gitti Bader suffers from osteoarthritis in her whole body, causing severe pain, and this stops her living a „normal“ untroubled life. The filmmaker Daniel Lang portrays this confident young woman, who in the face of her disability masters her life and has learned to embrace the sunny side of it. The graphic composition creates a highly stylised and aesthetic portrait full of poetry and life-affirming ease that bolsters the spirit of the viewer.
Director: Daniel Lang
Born in 1977 and raised in a British-German artist’s family in Bavaria. Lived in Australia between 1986 and 1989. From 1998 to 2001 he studied “Film and Drama“ at the University of Reading, England. From 2001 to 2007 he was a directing student at the Film and Television School “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam-Babelsberg, followed by a one-year stay in Beijing, China. His short film “female/male“ was awarded the German Short Film Prize in Gold 2005. His short film “Dog” had its premiere at the 56th Berlin Film Festival and was nominated for the German Short Film Prize 2006. Daniel Lang lives in Murnau am Staffelsee.