Christian Petzold | Germany | 2025 | 86 mins. | German
Thu, Oct 29 | 5:15 PM | Picturetime 3 (Football Ground)
On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura miraculously survives a car crash. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident and now cares for Laura with motherly devotion. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura’s presence, the four of them slowly build up some family-like routine. But soon they can no longer ignore their past…
Christian Petzold
Christian Petzold is a German film director. After graduating from the German Film and Television Academy, he directed his graduation film Pilots (1994) and two crime thrillers Cuba Libre (1996) and The Sex Thief (1998). In 2000 he released his first feature film, The State I Am In, for which he also wrote the screenplay. A representative of the “nouvelle vague” of German cinema, his films are regularly in competition at the Berlinale, and he has received awards for Barbara (2012), Undine (2020) and Afire (2023).
Producer: Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber, Anton Kaiser
Writer: Christian Petzold
Cinematographer: Hans Fromm
Editor: Bettina Böhler
Sound: Andreas Mücke-Niesytka, Dominik Schleier, Marek Forreiter, Bettina Böhler, Lars Ginzel
Music: Not provided
Cast: Paula Beer, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, Enno Trebs, Philip Froissant
Cannes Film Festival 2025 (Directors’ Fortnight)
New York Film Festival 2025
Viennale 2025
BFI London Film Festival 2025
International Film Festival of Kerala 2025
