2019

TOKYO

TOKYO

Catrin Freundlinger | Austria 2018 | 60 Min. | OmeU

In elegant nonchalance, Nicol moves from one bar to the next, traversing the sports hall in back handsprings, nearly ying. Nicol is twelve years old and an artistic gymnast. Tokyo is a portrait of her, focusing on what is also at the center for Nicol: Training six days a week for the next medal at a competition, dreaming of the Olympics, and devo­tion to the exercise.

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Director: Catrin Freundlinger
Additional Credits, Realisation: Catrin Freundlinger, Anna Lehner, Mathias Seebacher, Mareike Müller, Stephan Podest
Production: Filmakademie Wien

Screenings
Diagonale 2018

Biography
Catrin Freundlinger was born in 1991 in Wels, Austria. After finishing school in 2009 she studied at the „filmcollege“ in Vienna and later at the „Filmakademie Wien“, where she got her bachelors degree in film production in 2016.
Already at the age of 15 she started to make short movies and since 2013 she also worked on various cinema and TV movie productions.