Katharina Weingartner
Covid-19 has put the world on hold. But with malaria, which has killed more people than all other diseases and wars on Earth combined, it´s business as usual, or even worse: Deaths are expected to double due to the lockdown in African countries. Black lives apparently don't matter.
What if there was an herb that could defeat the deadly malaria parasite and save a thousand lives per day, every day? One you could grow in your backyard, which costs next to nothing, and could be easily available for everybody in need?
Sound good? Not everybody thinks so. Big pharma corporations fear for their profits. Donors like the Gates Foundation capitalize on high tech science. They prefer the old colonial ways, exploiting a continent already ravaged by poverty and death. And in the Global North nobody, including the experts at the World Health Organization, seem to believe that Africans have their own solutions.
In The Fever three East Africans reject this dispossession. They counter the spectacle of Black suffering, which Western documentaries often perpetuate and show how local solutions could save millions of lives - from malaria and possibly other pandemic diseases as well.
»A documentary thriller that unmasks the global players in the fatal fever business.«
--KRONEN ZEITUNG
--VORWÄRTS.DE
»The Fever is quite an excellent film. It shows the bottomless arrogance of the pharmaceutical companies, their repression of African Researchers and their greed for profit. The film is brave, clever and very useful for the fight against the terrible scourge of malaria.«
--Jean Ziegler
»Über DAS FIEBER« → Austrian Films, 10/2019, Karin Schiefer
»Gespräch zwischen Martin Stöbich und Katharina Weingartner« → Diözese Linz
»Fiebersenken« → Augustin
Interview → Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Filmkritik → Kino-Zeit.de
»Malariabekämpfung als neokolonialistische Episode« → ORF Radio FM4
Filmkritik → ORF Ö1
Filmkritik → Programmkino.de
Filmkritik → Ray Filmmagazin
»Der Kampf mit dem Fieber« →Süddeutsche Zeitung
»Afrikanische Lösungen für Afrikanische Probleme« → Tiroler Tageszeitung
»Verzweiflung und Hoffnung« → Vorarlberger Nachrichten
Filmhinweis → Afrika Süd, S.2, S.47
Filmtipp → SWR2
Interview → Deutschlandfunk Corso
TV-Beitrag → Vox News
»Kulturverführung« → Forum das Wochenmagazin
»Der Kampf gegen Malaria« → Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt
»Ein afrikanischer Kampf« → Evangelische Wochenzeitung
»Artemisia annua gegen Malaria!« → Africa Positive
Radiobeitrag → Domradio
»We wanted to give a voice to the people who actually live with malaria, who fight against it, but whom nobody hears or sees.«
--KATHARINA WEINGARTNER, REGIE
Genre
Documentary
Country of production
Austria
Germany
Suisse
Year of production
2019
Duration
99 min.
Color
Production format
Digital
Aspect ratio
16:9 (1,78:1)
Languages
English
Luganda
Luo
Mandarin
Language version
OmU (Original with subtitles)
Subtitles
German
English
French
For the hearing impaired
Audio description
Screening format
Blu-ray
DVD
DCP 2k
Age rating
6+
Written and directed by
Katharina Weingartner
Camera
Siri Klug
Editing
Andrea Wagner
Music
Ayub Ogada
Cinderella Sanyu
Sound
Patrick Becker
Richard Fleming
Producer
Markus Wailand
Production company
Pooldoks
Distribution
W-FILM Distribution (Deutschland, Schweiz)
Filmdelights (Österreich)
Production funding
Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF)
Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA)
Zürcher Filmstiftung
Österreichisches Filminstitut (ÖFI)
ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen
Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK)
Filmförderung Vorarlberg
Fisa Filmstandort Austria
Global distribution
cine-connect
RapidLion The South African International Film Festival, ZA, 2021
Zanzibar International Film Festival, TZ, 2021
Offizielle Auswahl
Berlinale Africa Hub, DE, 2020
Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary, TR, 2020
Gewinner Hauptpreis
Diagonale, Graz, AT, 2020
Offizielle Auswahl
Fünf Seen Filmfestival, DE, 2020
globaLE Leipzig, DE, 2020
HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival Oslo, NO, 2020
Offizielle Auswahl
International Human Rights Film Festival Taiwan, CN, 2020
Eröffnungsfilm
One World Human Rights Film Festival, Prag, CZ, 2020
Offizielle Auswahl
Take One Action Film Festival, Edinburgh, UK, 2020
Offizielle Auswahl
DOK Leipzig, DE, 2019
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