Satire, science fiction // 124 minutes // 2022 // youth film
Paula lives in a film world, her life is a film. Her mother is an outtake and her father a main character. As unusual as it may be for her as a supporting character, she goes to a main character school to make her dreams come true and prove she deserves to be a main character. But what is it like to be a misunderstood outtake in this three-class society, what is it like to not be accompanied by an emotional soundtrack, but rather bad sound design, and to have self-doubt about your ability to be a main character creep in?
The great music, suspenseful scenes, and both humorous and sharp commentary with many parallels may be what led Artechock to describe this film as “a declaration of love for the cinema”.
Directed by: Sophie Linnenbaum
Screenplay: Sophie Linnenbaum, Michael Fetter Nathansky
Producer: Britta Strampe, Laura Klippel
Music: Fabian Zeidler
Cinematography: Valentin Selmke
Film editing: Kai Eiermann
Cast: Fine Sendel, Jule Böwe, Henning Peker, Sira Faal, Noah Tinwa, Denise M’Baye, Pasquale Aleardi
Awards
- First Steps Award: best feature
- Förderpreis Neues Deutsches Kino - Filmfest München: best production, best director
- New Faces Award Film – best feature
- Audience Award – best Film –Filmkunstmesse Leipzig
- Children- and youth award of Goethe-Institut I Internationales Filmfestival SCHLINGEL
- KINEMA – German-french-youth-Award for outstanding debut – Braunschweig International Film Festival
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