The Trouble with Being Born

Panorama

Director: Sandra Wollner

Austria, Germany / 2020 / 94´

Ten-year-old Elli is an android. She takes shape through programming and this turns her into a fantasy figure. Firstly for a man she calls “Daddy”. Elli is the vessel for his memories, which mean nothing to her, but everything to him. One day he runs after a strange echo and gets lost in the darkness while Elli, who follows him, is picked up by strangers. A new identity awaits her, a new ghostly existence — as a blank screen onto which others can project their loss of the paradise that is childhood. 

Screenplay: Sandra Wollner, Roderick Warich 

Producer: Lixi Frank, David Bohun 

Cinematographer: Timm Kröger 

Art Director: Pia Jaros 

Music: David Schweighart, Peter Kutin 

Editing: Hannes Bruun

Cast: Lena Watson, Dominik Warta, Ingrid Burkhard, Jana McKinnon 

 

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