2024 - 69th Edition

Ivo

Eva Trobisch

Germany

- 2024

Estreno nacional

Making a film on death far removed from the commonplaces of tragedy is no easy challenge. In Ivo (world premiere in the Encounters section of Berlinale 2024), Eva Trobisch draws a portrait of a profession that deals with it on a daily basis in an honest and lively way. Ivo (Minna Wündrich) is a palliative care nurse who goes from house to house, from patient to patient, observing the different attitudes that human beings assume when the end of their days is imminent. Her work intertwines with her personal life in many ways, especially as she befriends her patient Solveigh and her husband Franz, who is also Ivo's lover. Trobisch's camera observes their peculiar relationship without judgement, understanding that their emotions and decisions are rooted in pure humanity while conveying this sense of empathy to the viewer.

Eva Trobisch

Born 1983 in Berlin. After working as an assistant in theatre and film, she began studying directing at the HFF Munich, where her short films won several awards. As a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, she attended the summer school in film dramaturgy at NYU Tisch in New York and began a master’s degree in screen writing at the London Film School in 2015. Her feature film debut ‘Alles ist gut’(2018) won Best Director, Best Acting and the Fipresci Award at the Munich Film Festival, celebrated its international premiere in Locarno where it was awarded Best Debut Film, received the Woman in Motion Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the German Film Critics’ Award. Her second feature film ‘Ivo’ (2024), premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won the Heiner Carow Prize.

O.V. in German with English and Spanish subtitles