Dir. Christian Petzold
2025 | 86 mins | German | German with English Subtitles
Paula Beer, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt

Showing Times

• Fri 15 May: 5.15pm
• Mon 18 May: 5.15pm
• Tue 19 May: 2pm
• Wed 20 May: 5.15pm

Christian Petzold’s latest is a sharply written and gripping study of loss and trauma, and the potential for reinvention as they subside.

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.

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Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix

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