Bring me the sea!

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Between verbal clashes and blackmailing brinksmanship, a crusty old landlocked sea captain and his soccer-rowdy caregiver share their passions, lives and dreams. The command, "Bring me the sea!" must now become the youth's anthem.

-MJS, San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival

Trailer

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Sweet Sea Breeze - or Süße Seeluft in german - is the bachelor project of Thomas Hessmann and me. The film took one year in production, ran in over 25 film festivals worldwide and won over 10 awards.

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Poster artwork by Anh To

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Making-Of

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21. FILMFESTIVAL CONTRAVISION (BERLIN) AUDIENCE AWARD September 13, 2013

XXS KURZFILMFESTIVAL (DORTMUND) AUDIENCE AWARD September 15, 2013

FESTIVAL DU INTERNATIONAL DU COURT MÉTRAGE (LILLE) OFFICIAL SELECTION October 3, 2013

55. NORDISCHE FILMTAGE (LÜBECK) OFFICIAL SELECTION November 1, 2013

30. VIDEO/FILM TAGE - SCREENING_013 (KOBLENZ) PRICE FOR BEST FILM November 2, 2013

FILMZ – FESTIVAL DES DEUTSCHEN KINOS (MAINZ) AUDIENCE AWARD November 26, 2013

FILMFEST DÜSSELDORF OFFICIAL SELECTION November 28, 2013

24. BAMBERGER KURZFILMTAGE AUDIENCE AWARD January 25, 2014

CA’ FOSCARI SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 4 (VENEDIG) OFFICIAL SELECTION March 19, 2014

15. LANDSHUTER KURZFILMFESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTION March 26, 2014

CLUJ SHORTS INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (CLUJ-NAPOCA, RUMÄNIEN) OFFICIAL SELECTION March 27, 2014

14. INDEPENDENT DAYS FILMFEST (DORTMUND) AUDIENCE AWARD April 9, 2014

9. SUNSCREEN FILM FESTIVAL (ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, USA) OFFICIAL SELECTION May 9, 2014

24. FILMKUNSTFEST MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN (SCHWERIN) OFFICIAL SELECTION May 6, 2014

16. KURZFILMFESTIVAL WEIMAR OFFICIAL SELECTION May 24, 2014

E.WERK FESTIVAL (WEIMAR) OFFICIAL SELECTION May 31, 2014

FUSION FESTIVAL 2014 (MECKLENBURG) OFFICIAL SELECTION June 26, 2014

21. OPENEYES FILMFEST (MARBURG) JURY AWARD July 17, 2014

SHORTS AT MOONLIGHT (MAINZ) AUDIENCE AWARD August 9, 2014

3. EKA DESHMA – FESTIVAL DE CONTEMPORARY CINEMA (KATHMANDU, NEPAL) OFFICIAL SELECTION September 19, 2014

11. NAOUSSA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (NAOUSSA, GREECE) OFFICIAL SELECTION September 25, 2014

8. KINOFEST INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL (BUCHAREST, ROMANIA) OFFICIAL SELECTION September 26, 2014

27. CASTELLINARIA FILM FESTIVAL (CASTELLINARIA, SWITZERLAND) OFFICIAL SELECTION November 15, 2014

2. “EAT MY SHORTS” – HAGENER KURZFILMFESTIVAL AUDIENCE AWARD November 21, 2014

BEST OF OPENEYES (GEVELSBERG) OFFICIAL SELECTION January 30, 2015

FILMTAGE FRIEDRICHSHAFEN 2015 OFFICIAL SELECTION February 20, 2015

SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTION February 28, 2015

SHORTS AT MOONLIGHT EVENT SCREENING July 19, 2015


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Director Thomas Hessmann Stefan Siebert
Screenplay Thomas Hessmann
Production Thomas Hessmann Stefan Siebert
Director Of Photography Felix Meinhardt
Editor Stefan Siebert
Sound-Design Franziska Lehmann
Sound-Recording Christian Behrens, Recordbay
Music Thomas Hessmann
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Fritz Paulsen - Klaus A. Müller-Oi
Lars Kerbholz - Jakob Plutte
Herr Huberschlag - Severin von Hoensbroech
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Running Time: 19:25
Shooting Format: Red Epic RAW 5k
Sceening Format: DCP, BluRay, DVD
Aspect Ratio: Scope
Sound: Stereo
Agency: aug&ohr medien