The Trouble With Being Born
Directed by Sandra Wollner
Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.
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Lena Watson, Dominik Warta, Ingrid Burkhard, Jana McKinnon
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German / 2020 / 94’
The Trouble With Being Born
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FICTION - Drama
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Director Sandra Wollner Screenwriters Sandra Wollner, Roderick Warich Director of Photography Timm Kröger Production Designer Pia Jaros Editor Hannes Bruun Costume Designer Andrea Jirez Music David Schweighart Sound Design Peter Kutin Producers Lixi Frank, David Bohun, Andi G Hess, Astrid Schäfer, Viktoria Stolpe, Timm Kröger Production company Panama Film Co-Producers The Barricades, ZDF - Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
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DCP I Colour I 5.1
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Berlin Film Festival 2020 - Encounters
Special Jury Award
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"Austrian director Sandra Wollner extemporises on the topic that make this such a powerful and revelatory achievement. With Wollner’s complex, artfully crafted, sometimes wilfully perplexing film delving boldly into questions of memory, gender, identity and indeed film language” SCREEN
“The director joins the pantheon of uncompromisingly intellectual Austrian formalists like Ulrich Seidl and Michael Haneke”
VARIETY“Hidden gem” HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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