Suspect () is a 2008 short film. It was the final graduation project of director Felix Hassenfratz at the Internationale Filmschule Köln. The story, inspired by true events and based on the documentary The Baker Did It, is set in a southern German province with the Badisch dialect. The film is a co-production with the broadcast stations SWR and Arte, and supported by a German film fund. Despite its regional emphasis, Suspect is a universal story, focused on human behaviour, a story about love in the face of doubt.
Synopsis
What to do and whom to believe when you live in a small village and your husband, the village baker, is the suspect in an unsolved murder? He’s not from the village and your mother still doesn't accept his taking over the family business after your father's death. You also find a shirt stained with blood and a gun kept in a locked cabinet, and he insists he’s innocent. Can love overcome doubt?
Festivals and screenings
Germany (all 2008)
Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis
Munich International Film Festival
24. Int. Berlin Film Festival Interfilm
Festival of German Cinema
Landshut Short Film Festival (Won an award) Sehsüchte int. student film festival Potsdam International Filmfest Emden Film Festival Shorts At Moonlight Wendland Shorts (Won an award) New Talents Biennale Cologne Int. Film Festival Passau Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche
International (all 2008)
St. Petersburg White Nights Festival
32. Montreal World Film Festival
Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films
Encounters Short Film Festival, Bristol
Foyle Int. Film Festival, Ireland
Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax
Buenos Aires Film Festival
Goethe Institute Paris – selection of contemporary German cinema
Zagreb Film Festival
Awards
2007: The film rating agency FBW labeled the movie "of special merit" 2007: Short film of the month – German film rating agency 2008: BMW short film prize 2008: Jury prize, Wendland Shorts 2008: Best Screenplay Studio Hamburg Newcomer Award
References
External links
Information on Suspect at shortfilmcentral.com (in English) Official website Suspect at the Palm Springs Short Film Festival