🎖The latest work from acclaimed German director Christian Petzold
🎖2025 Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight
On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura, a piano student from Berlin, 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 and spend some days of happiness together. But soon they can no longer ignore their past, and Laura has to come to terms with her own life.
Director: Christian Petzold
Cast: Paula Beer, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, Enno Trebs
 | About the Director Christian Petzold is a German director and screenwriter, born in Hilden, who won the Silver Bear for Best Director in the competition at the 62nd Berlinale in 2012 for Barbara, which was selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Oscars. The film was selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards, and in 2023 Roter Himmel won the Silver Bear at the 73rd Berlinale Jury Prize. | |