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Trailers/Videos

Brief synopsis

Welcome to Florida’s Friendliest Hometown. The Bubble explores senior citizen life within The Villages, America’s largest retirement community; a 32-square mile, sun-drenched, beautifully maintained, gated Floridian paradise housing over 150,000 retirees.

Retired life beneath the year-round Floridian sunshine however, is not perhaps as idyllic, or as welcomed, as many ageing Villagers and viewers may imagine.

The Bubble offers viewers an engaging, provocative yet compassionate contemplation of American ways of life, ageing, and death.
(https://www.catpics.ch/projects)

Crew

ActivityNameComment
ColoristDavid Hughes
Director of photography
Joe Berger
DirectorValerie Blankenbyl
EditorNela Märki
ProducerDario Schoch
ProducerKarin C. Berger
ProducerRajko Jazbec
ProducerArash T. Riahi
ScreenwriterValerie Blankenbyl

Distribution / Sales companies

CompanyComment
Deckert Distribution GmbH [de]
World Sales
World Sales
Filmladen Filmverleih GmbH [at]
Austria (theatrical)
Austria (theatrical)

Facilities

DepartmentCompanyComment
Subtitles / Audio descriptionAudiofilm e.U.

Awards

Award winnerYearAwardCategory 
Catpics2022Romy [at]
Best Documentary Cinema
Best Documentary CinemaNominated
Joe Berger2022German Camera Award [de]
Documentary
DocumentaryNominated
Valerie Blankenbyl2022Romy [at]
Best Documentary Cinema
Best Documentary CinemaNominated
Valerie Blankenbyl2021Diagonale [at]
Dokumentarfilm
DokumentarfilmNominated
Nela Märki2021Edimotion [de]
Bild-Kunst Editing Award Documentary Film
Bild-Kunst Editing Award Documentary FilmNominated

Cinema releases and premieres

TypeCountryDateComment
Theatre releaseAustriaFriday, 08/10/2021