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Original Name: Roads
English Name: Roads
Year: 2019
Run Time: 99'
Language: English, Spanish, French, German, Lingala
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Colour
Country: Germany, France
Director: Sebastian Schipper
Producer: Sebastian Schipper
Cast: Fionn Whitehead, Stéphane Bak,
Moritz Bleibtreu, Ben Chaplin
Screenplay: Sebastian Schipper, Oliver Ziegenbalg
Cinematographer: Matteo Cocco
Editor: Monica Coleman
Sound Designer: Philippe Welsh
Music Composer: Dirk Lange
Costume Designer: Jürgen Doering
Production Designer: Chloe Cambournac
Production Company: Missing Link Films
Wrold Sales: Han Way Films
World Sales Phone: +44 20 7290 0750
World Sales Email: gs@hanwayfilms.com
Sebastian Schipper is an actor-turned-director. As an actor, he has appeared in features including Winter Sleepers, Run Lola Run, and The English Patient, and directed Gigantic (1999), A Friend Of Mine (2006), Sometime In August (2009), and Victoria (2015), which won a Silver Bear at Berlinale and six German Film Awards including Best Film and Best Director. He was also part of producing team of much celebrated, Toni Erdmann (2016) which won many awards across the globe and was nominated for Academy Awards, BAFTA, and Golden Globes.
The film follows William, a young man from the Congo, as he attempts to break through Europe's borders in search of his brother. By chance he teams up with Gyllen, a wild and sharp-witted British runaway who has fled his family's Moroccan holiday in his stepfather's campervan. Their trip across Europe is an unpredictable and thrilling ride fuelled by the unstoppable momentum, chaos and humour only a pair of teenagers living on the edge can ignite. In cementing a brotherly bond, Gyllen and William learn that to truly depend on each other is the most important gift of all.
