11/21/2023 05:30 pm – Murnau-Filmtheater
Germany 2023 80 min Original version with English subtitles
by Janin Halisch
Script: Janin Halisch, DoP: Antonia Lange, Editor: Jamin Benazzouz, Producers: Clara Gerst, Janin Halisch, Production: German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB), Cast: Alina Stiegler, Barbara Philipp, Peter Lohmeyer, Pearl Graw, Jonathan Berlin, Zethphan Smith-Gneist, Pierre Besson
Germany 2023 80 min Original version with English subtitles
by Janin Halisch
Script: Janin Halisch, DoP: Antonia Lange, Editor: Jamin Benazzouz, Producers: Clara Gerst, Janin Halisch, Production: German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB), Cast: Alina Stiegler, Barbara Philipp, Peter Lohmeyer, Pearl Graw, Jonathan Berlin, Zethphan Smith-Gneist, Pierre Besson
The former single mother and hairdresser Michaela (50) did not have an easy life and no luck with men. She wants to spend a few quiet days on the island of Rügen with her grown-up daughter Karo (28). If the vacation destination is not Mallorca, then at least sun and sea. At the hotel, the two meet Jochen (60) and his daughter Marie (16).
Michaela immediately finds in Jochen a vacation flirt, in Karo rather a father-daughter relationship she never had. She realizes that this emptiness is still keeping her from finally arriving in her own life. For Karo, Jochen becomes a friend, or more? What was planned as a mother-daughter vacation turns out to be a journey into the past of two women who don’t really talk to each other and couldn’t be more different.
Janin Halisch was born in East Berlin in 1984. She gained her first experience with film at the Filmarche in Berlin-Kreuzberg. From 2009, she studied Directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). So far, she has written and directed several short and mid-length films that have successfully screened at festivals worldwide. She works as a freelance director, writer and dramaturge. In 2021, she shot three episodes of the second season of the ZDF series ECHT. TALK TO ME is her first feature-length film.
Filmography (selection): 2015 THE LOST ONES, 2016 LUI (both short films), 2023 TALK TO ME
Awards: Max Ophüls Award for Best Young Actress (Max Ophüls Film Festival, Saarbrücken/Germany 2023), Best Screenplay Award (Achtung Berlin Film Festival, Germany 2023)
Michaela immediately finds in Jochen a vacation flirt, in Karo rather a father-daughter relationship she never had. She realizes that this emptiness is still keeping her from finally arriving in her own life. For Karo, Jochen becomes a friend, or more? What was planned as a mother-daughter vacation turns out to be a journey into the past of two women who don’t really talk to each other and couldn’t be more different.
Janin Halisch was born in East Berlin in 1984. She gained her first experience with film at the Filmarche in Berlin-Kreuzberg. From 2009, she studied Directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). So far, she has written and directed several short and mid-length films that have successfully screened at festivals worldwide. She works as a freelance director, writer and dramaturge. In 2021, she shot three episodes of the second season of the ZDF series ECHT. TALK TO ME is her first feature-length film.
Filmography (selection): 2015 THE LOST ONES, 2016 LUI (both short films), 2023 TALK TO ME
Awards: Max Ophüls Award for Best Young Actress (Max Ophüls Film Festival, Saarbrücken/Germany 2023), Best Screenplay Award (Achtung Berlin Film Festival, Germany 2023)
Contact
German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB)
Potsdamer Straße 2
10875 Berlin
Germany
festival@dffb.de
