Mission Ulja Funk
ULJA (12), the youngest of a family, in a village in Germany, is a smart (and slightly odd) girl, and very much into science. She has discovered an asteroid on it’s way to earth and determined its point of impact: Belarus.
Her Grandma OLGA is religious and cannot stand Ulja’s thirst for knowledge and one day, after yet another fight, all science is banned from Ulja’s life.
Ulja cannot follow the asteroid anymore. So she hires HENK, a boy from her class to drive her and together they embark on a trip across Poland to witness the impact. With Olga’s family and the pastor on their heels.
Year:
2021
Director:
Barbara Kronenberg
Producers:
In Good Company (DE)
Coproducers:
Samsa Film (Bernard Michaux), Shipsboy (PL)
Cast:
Romy Lou Janinhoff, Jonas Oeßel, Hildegard Schroedter, Luc Feit, Anja Schneider, Ivan Shvedoff, Christina Große, Janina Elkin, Peter Trabner, Martina Eitner-Acheampong
With the support of
Film Fund Luxembourg
Financiers:
Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM), Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), Polish Film Institute (PFI).
Awarded the Förderpreis der Mitteldeutschen Medienförderung
Developed with the support of the Akademie für Kindermedien and Der besondere Kinderfilm
Awards:
Selected at Berlinale 2021 "Generation KPlus"