Nina has just moved in with her husband and daughter in a new house that promises to be the start of an idyllic family life. However, she doesn't seem to feel happy within these walls thinking about the future that awaits her and decides to leave suddenly, wandering to a mysterious hotel in the middle of the mountains. The film by Ulrich Köhler, winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival for Sleeping Sickness, is one of the pillars of the Berlin School imaginary, where the hope of the dream of the prosperity of a new country after the fall of the wall was clouded by the existential immobilism and identity crisis that plagued the German middle class. The naturalistic tone of the photography by Patrick Orth, responsible for Toni Erdmann (2016), combines with an almost dreamlike lyricism to embody Nina's search outside of marriage.
Ulrich Köhler
He was born in Marburg (Germany) in 1969. He studied Art in the French town of Quimper, and Philosophy and Audiovisual Communication in Hamburg. He directed five short films before making his feature debut in 2002 with ‘Bungalow’, which premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlinale and received the German Critics’ prize. In 2006 he participated with ‘Windows on Monday’ in the Forum section of the Berlin Festival. Together with filmmakers such as Christoph Hochhäusler, Benjamin Heisenberg, Angela Schanelec, thomas Arslan, Valeska Grisebach and her partner, Maren Ade, they make up the so-called ‘Berlin School’. His third feature film, ‘Sleeping Sickness’ (2011) earned him the Golden Bear for best director in Berlin. In 2018 he was selected for Un Certain Regard in Cannes for ‘In My Room’ and a year later he participated in Locarno with ‘A Voluntary Year’, co-directed with Henner Winckler.
Screenings
O.V. in German, English subtitled in English and Spanish
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