Closing Time

Switzerland / Germany, August 2018
FILM, Documentary, 116 min.

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directed by
Nicole Vögele
Written by
Nicole Vögele
Status
In distribution
Website
www.closing-time.ch

Kuo and his wife cook for the city’s sleepless. They work all night and sleep during the day, like many others in buzzing Taipei. The film is an attempt at capturing time, a cinematographic meditation on in-between moments and a search for the inexplicable when a human being is simply human.

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World Premiere
August 2018
Original Version
Chinese (french/english/german subtitles),  colour, DCP, 116 min.
ISAN
0000-0004-67B5-0000-D-0000-0000-Z
Production
Beauvoir Films, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Producer
Aline Schmid
directed by
Nicole Vögele
Written by
Nicole Vögele
Cinemato­graphy
Stefan Sick
Editing
Hannes Bruun
Location Sound Mix
Markus Rebholz
Sound Editing
Jonathan Schorr
Sound Design
Jonathan Schorr
Music
Alva Noto, Kevin Drumm, Jonathan Schorr
Location Sound Mix
Jonathan Schorr

World Sales / World Rights

World Sales
Taskovski Films Ltd

Worldwide Distribution

Switzerland
Xenix Filmdistribution GmbH Distribution
Release date: 21.03.2019

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