Die defekte Katze
A Dysfunctional CatWith
- Pegah Ferydoni (Mina)
- Hadi Khanjanpour (Kian)
- Henrike von Kuick (Sophie)
- Constantin von Jascheroff (Lars)
- Arash Marandi (Masoud)
- Kianoosh Sadigh (Maryam)
- Azar Shahidi (Mrs Torabian)
- Mahdokht Ansari (Rawi)
- Marzieh Alivirdi (Mrs Faridani)
- Massud Rahnama (Mr Faridani)
Crew
Written and Directed by | Susan Gordanshekan |
Cinematography | Julian Krubasik |
Editing | Frank Müller |
Music | Sebastian Fillenberg |
Sound Design | Nico Krebs |
Sound | Udo Steinhauser |
Production Design | Markus Dicklhuber |
Costumes | Katharina Schmidt |
Make-Up | Sylvia Niehues |
Assistant Director | Olga Müller, Merlin Nadj-Torma |
Production Manager | Caroline Fischer |
Producer | Ralf Zimmermann |
Co-Producers | Natalie Lambsdorff, Monika Lobkowicz, Barbara Häbe |
Co-Production |
Bayerischer Rundfunk München Arte Straßburg |
World Sales
media luna new films UG
Produced by
Glory Film
Susan Gordanshekan
Born in Kassel, Germany in 1978 to Iranian parents, she studied communication design in Hanover and Saint Etienne whilst freelancing for German public broadcaster NDR. In 2004 she began a degree at HFF Munich, graduating in 2015. She took film production internships including, in 2011, with ZDF's 'Kleines Fernsehspiel'. Her films Garçons Manqués (Tom Boys) and Eisblumen (Ice Flowers, 2011 Perspektive Deutsches Kino) screened at many international festivals and won several awards. She developed her debut feature Die defekte Katze (A Dysfunctional Cat) at the 2013 Cannes Cinéfondation Résidence. She participated in Berlinale Talents in 2016.
Filmography
2003 Kann man Musik sehen? (Can You See Music?); documentary 2005 Tarof; short film 2008 Garçons manqués (Tom Boys); short documentary 2011 Eisblumen (Ice FLowers); short film 2016 In Limbo; short film 2018 Die defekte Katze (A Dysfunctional Cat)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018