HN & HCMC – Spring Cinema: “Are You Ready for the Next Level”

Wed 26 Apr 2017, 7 pm
Hanoi: Goethe Institut
HCMC: Salon Van hoa Ca Phe Thu Bay

From Goethe Institut:

Come to the film screening “Are You Ready for the Next Level” within the framework of the Spring Cinema program by the Goethe Institut in Hanoi and HCMC.

The 17-year-old gamer Jan gets ready for the biggest quest of his life – in the real world! In search of his hacked digital identity, reality and computer game intermingle.

ABOUT THE FILM

Genre: Comedy/Adventure
Country: Germany
Year: 2016
Director: Florian Schnell
Script: Jan Cronauer, Florian Schnell
Actor: Moritz Jahn, Mala Emde, Ugur Ekeroglu, Hannes Wegener, David Schütter
Length: 87 minutes
Age rating: from 12 years old
Awards:
– Children’s and Youth Film Prize LEO 2016 Festivals
– 37th Film Festival Max Ophülus Prize
– 45th International Student Film Festival

Watch the film’s trailer here:

The 17-year-old Jan spends most of his time online. As the daring warrior Fenris, he is one of the best players in the computer game Battle of Utgard. He’s just preparing for an important online tournament when he’s suddenly expelled from the game. He frantically realises he’s been hacked by another player! Not only is his internet down, his debit card and cell phone are on the blink, too. When he realises that the dark magician “Loki” is behind this, Jan starts the biggest quest of his life – in the real world! He goes on a search for the evildoer and gets to know the aroused gamer girl Karo who has also been hacked. As the two very different teens stumble from one catastrophe to the next on their trip, real life and virtual gaming reality start to intermingle in weird ways.

Florian Schnell, born 1984 in Lörrach, studied Scenic Arts at the University Hildesheim before he began to study at the film academy in Ludwigsburg, Germany. His films are characterised by creative mixtures of animation and real film and have earned national and international prices. His cinema debut Offline – Are You Ready for the Next Level was awarded with the Children’s and Youth Film Prize LEO in 2016.

Language: German with English and Vietnamese subtitles

Free admission

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