COURAGE
Three teenagers in Mexico City: After their imprisonment they are trying to regain a foothold in society and to mentally digest their time in prison.
Inside, they played theater – outside, they are fighting for their own place and role in life.
CORAJE - a film about teenagers and young men in Mexican Juvenile prisons and their lives afterwards, about being trapped in structures of violence, about theatre as a potential remedy, and social roles that are difficult to escape from.
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Janina MöbiusDirector
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Janina MöbiusWriter
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Janina MöbiusProducer
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Ernesto PardoDoPLa Tempestad by Tatiana Huezo
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Ricardo del CondeDoP
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Alfredo Castro OrtigozaEditor
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Baruch Arias AKA Kexolli K.Sound Recording
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Gábor RipliSound Design
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Unai RosendeColor Correction & Visual Effects
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Project Title (Original Language):CORAJE
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Project Type:Documentary
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Runtime:1 hour 18 minutes
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Completion Date:November 5, 2017
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Country of Origin:Germany
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Country of Filming:Mexico
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Language:Spanish
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Shooting Format:HD
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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DocsMx International Documentary Filmfestival MexicoMexico City
Mexico
October 13, 2018
World Premiere
Official Selection -
CineLatino FilmfestivalTübingen, Stuttgart, Reutlingen
Germany
April 13, 2019
Official Selection -
Ethnografilm FestivalParis
France
April 18, 2019
Official Selection -
Eyes and Lenses XIV Warsaw Ethnographic Film ReviewWarsaw
Poland
June 10, 2019
Poland Premiere
Official Selection -
Vizantrop Engaged Ethnographic film FestivalBelgrad
Serbia
June 13, 2019
Serbian Premiere
Official Selection -
Humano International Human Rights Film FestivalTijuana
Mexico -
Seattle Latino Film FestivalSeattle
United States
North American Premiere
Official Selection -
MIRA - Latin American Independent FilmfestivalBonn
Germany
November 16, 2019
Official Selection -
Central American Film Festival - ViennaVienna
Austria
November 20, 2019
Austrian Premiere
Official Selection -
Muestra de Mujeres en el Cine y la Televisión-MéxicoMexico City
Mexico
Official Selection -
Festival de Cine de IrapuatoIrapuato
Mexico
Official Selection
Janina Möbius, Ph.D., explores cultural phenomena in Latin America and Europe through cinematographic means and academic research.
With the production company, la paloma documentaries, she produces her films and conducts pedagogical media projects.
She studied Theatre, Film, and Television Studies and Spanish Philology at the Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Granada in Spain, and the UNAM in Mexico City.
2021 Down in the sky - a theatre film for kids, 28 min.
2019 Indigo - The guardians of the colour, 43 min., TV: arte/ZDF
2015 Opal Glas – oder The World isn’t shitty, 25 min.
2015 The Trial ..., 17 min.
since 2011: Die Bumbuls, author, director (with Sandra Merseburger), long-term- documentary about a single mother and her daughter
2010 „Apple Strudel – or German Traces in Mexico“, 73 min.
2009 „Lotería“, 63 min., festivals: „Your Nanny Hates You!“ HAU Berlin, Globale Berlin & Cologne, screened at exhibitions in Berlin and Vienna
2008 „Hunger for theatre, thirst for worlds – flies and existence“, 38 min. loop, for the festival „Re-Education“ Berlin
2005 „Pepper – the Trade with the Black Gold“, 45 min, TV: ZDF/arte Discovery
1995 „Gods of Flesh and Blood“, 45 min, Beta-SP, festivals in Mexico, Portugal, Colombia, Germany
When sharing times with the young guys over the years - first while in prison, later outside – they showed me their strength and wit to try to escape from the vicious and violent circles they were put in.
And besides all the official efforts to “reintegrate them“, for example by using theatre performances as a tool, the question remains: to reintegrate them into what? As the Mexican State does not open up any positive perspectives for the majority of the young people – quite the contrary: being young in Mexico means being in huge danger …