SOLDAT AHMET

A documentary by Jannis Lenz
AT, 2021, 76 min, Digital, 1:1.85

Ahmet, a champion boxer with Turkish roots and a professional soldier in the Austrian Army, starts taking acting lessons. On stage he comes face to face with his own internal battles.

SALES/DISTRIBUTION

Festival Sales: Lemonade Films
Distribution AT: Filmdelights

Press Kit: Download here

ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook: @soldatahmet
Instagram: @soldat.ahmet

FUNDERS/TV

BMKÖS, VAM, Stadt Wien MA7, Land Niederösterreich, Freunde der Filmakademie
In co-operation with Filmakademie Wien

AWARDS

First Steps Award
Documentary Film Nominee

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award

Diagonale 21'
Best Sound Design for Documentary Film

Kitzbühel Film Festival
Best Director

This Human World Festival
Award Winner

FESTIVALS

International Film Festival Nyon - Visions du Réel
Sarajevo Film Festival
DOK.fest München
Film Festival Bozen
Zagreb Dox
Festival Cinematográfico International Del Uruguay
Frame[o]ut Festival
Europe On Screen Indonesia
Biografilm Festival

CREDITS

Cast: Ahmet Simsek, Margot Vuga, Andreas Simma,
Adriana Salles

Written and Directed by: Jannis Lenz
Director of Photography: Jakob Fuhr
Editing: Jannis Lenz, Roland Stöttinger, Nooran Talebi
Dramaturgical Advisor: Tizza Covi
Sound and Music: Benedikt Palier
Sound Mix: Rudolf Potoschnig
Grading: Lee Niederkofler, ViennaFX
Poster Design: Miro Denck
Location Manager: Clara Maria Bacher, Christoph Rohner
Producers: David Bohun, Lixi Frank

QUOTES

«Jannis Lenz creatively and amusingly challenges prejudices.»
Vladan Petkovic, Cineuropa

«With musicality, beauty and delicate caution, Jannis Lenz’s camera follows the soldier Ahmet inside the barracks, in the demanding boxing training and during his rehearsals, playing a Stanley Kowalski unable to let himself be carried away by his passions.»
Violeta Bava, Visions du Reél - IFF Nyon

«A multifaceted debut film, that’s carried by a deeply lovable protagonist, whose optimism and bold nature is a breath of fresh air in uncertain times like these.»
Jan Hestmann, FM4

«Jannis Lenz achieves the rare feat of unifying meta-piece and complex, layered characters; he masterfully crafts an intimate viewing experience that lives from its lightness, while still embracing moments of heaviness.»
Jakob Dibold, Ray Film Magazine

«There is sweetness and attention in Lenz’s gaze, there is understanding and study in the formulation of the portrait: Soldat Ahmet grows progressively and remains in circulation for a long time, precisely because he knows how to treat the muscular part like the tender one from his protagonist.»
Massimo Causo, Critic Fipresci / European Film Academy

«Soldat Ahmet is a complex, subtly layered and ever-growing portrait.»
Carolin Weidner, Catalogue Diagonale ‘21

SOLDAT AHMET

A documentary by Jannis Lenz AT, 2021, 76 min, Digital, 1:1.85

SALES/DISTRIBUTION

ON SOCIAL MEDIA

FUNDERS/TV

AWARDS

FESTIVALS

CREDITS

QUOTES

A documentary by Jannis Lenz
AT, 2021, 76 min, Digital, 1:1.85