German LGBT Family Drama JONATHAN Out on DVD & VOD Today

JONATHAN will be released February 7th, 2017 in the U.S. and Canada via Wolfe Video on DVD & VOD and across all digital platforms including iTunes, Vimeo On Demand, and WolfeOnDemand.com and many major retailers. Visually accomplished, and set amidst a sumptuous German landscape, director/writer Piotr J. Lewandowski has created a homoerotic and emotionally charged story about romantic love and generational conflict for a young man on the brink of adulthood who is struggling to accept his family's troubled past. TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/180238622

After premiering at the Berlin Film Festival in 2016, JONATHAN has garnered numerous awards at festivals, and features complex, eloquent performances from the cast including standouts from Jannis Niewöhner as Jonathan and André Hennicke (Victoria, Youth Without Youth) as his secretive, ailing father.

Jonathan, 23, works on a family farm, and also devotes himself to looking after his father Burghardt, who is struggling with a terminal illness. Jonathan finds it increasingly difficult to cope until they hire a young caretaker, Anka, to help - and Jonathan and Anka begin to fall in love. But then Burghardt's long-lost boyhood friend Ron appears, and Jonathan discovers that many years ago, his father and Ron were deeply in love. All at once, the façade of cherished family beliefs crumbles and long-repressed secrets come to light. Can Jonathan forgive his father, and can THE FAMILY heal deep rifts together to find redemption and forgiveness?

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Born in Warsaw, Poland, Piotr J. Lewandowski is a German based filmmaker, animator, painter, and artists. He studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (University of Art and Design) in Offenbach near Frankfurt am Main. In 2002, he transferred to the Filmakademie in Baden-Württemberg, the renowned international film school, where he graduated in 2007. After receiving awards for his short films HEAVY PREGNANT and PAPA, he co-directed a feature length film with Carsten Strauch, entitled DIE AUFSCHNEIDER (BUTCHERS). In 2006 he made a short Polish film JANEK (JONNY). After gathering many awards in Germany, JANEK received a director's nomination for Best Story and awards for Best Actors (Danuta Stenka and Paul Merkle) at the "Grand OFF-World Independent Film Awards" Film Festival in Warsaw in 2009. His next short film, FLIEGEN (FLIES), was part of the official program of the Berlin International Film Festival in 2009. In 2011-2012, Mr. Lewandowski co-created a TV-series GÖTTER WIE WIR (GODS R US), which garnered the German TV-award for the best TV-series. JONATHAN, his feature film debut as a writer/director, world premiered at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival.