TOTE KÖRPER RENNEN NICHT /DEAD BODIES DON'T RUN
feature film, 90min
Director/Writer: Laurenz Otto
In a small village surrounded by wild nature, MAYA (13) is an outsider. She (day)dreams of hunting schoolmates disguised as animals and carefully explores her burgeoning need for closeness. When a pupil Maya feels attracted to disappears overnight, Maya finds the boy lying dead in a riverbed. Instead of reporting her find, she hides her lifeless prey and keeps the secret to herself. The search for the missing man begins in the village and Maya is confronted with her own longings and abysses.
Status: script development
Supported by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW (P2), script funding
DIE DAMEN (AT)
Serial TV format by Christian Becker
The four women GISELA, MAGRET, BARBETTE and UTE have been a close-knit community for years. Their weekly volleyball game is ritualized and an integral part of their friendship. All four are in their late 60s and have been separated from their husbands for many years. They know almost everything about each other, but only almost.
Die Damen” is about dreams that one hardly dares to dream anymore due to the wear and tear of real life, but also about dependencies on men that one has never overcome despite all the emancipation and to which one has therefore remained stuck like a fly on the glue thread of obligations. The coalition of late singles is only superficially stable. But they need each other.
Director/Writer: Christian Becker
Production: field recordings filmproduktion