Synopsis

Outsiders becoming champions - and champions falling to the ground. UPPERCUT is a two-version-film-experience. In the so-called "still" version, one summer night 2014, TONI enters ELLIOTT's boxing gym in Bushwick, New York City, after having been fired from her job as a personal trainer. Determined, she wants to become a fighter. Elliott first refuses to train her but in the course of the night these two, so different people become more and more curious about each other. They fight, they dance, they argue. They talk without fear, they listen without prejudice. On boyfriends and mothers, on respect and beliefs. But their last bout changes Toni's fate forever. How? See UPPERCUT "sparkling". The story's other chapter: Eight years later Toni surprisingly does not carry Elliott's knowledge in herself as a professional boxer but passes it on to her young proteges as one of the first successful female boxing managers. Her greatest hope is PAYNE, whom she mentors at his very first championship fight night. UPPERCUT - the "still" version world premiered at the International Film Festival in Oldenburg 2023, UPPERCUT - the "sparkling" version will have its World Premiere in early spring 2024.