FICTION FEATURE FILM | 110’ | GERMANY – JAPAN | 2019
DIRECTOR
Doris Dörrie
CAST
Golo Euler: “Karl”
Aya Irizuki: “Yu”
Kiki Kirin: “Yu’s Grandmother”
Hannelore Elsner: “Trudi”
Elmar Wepper: “Rudi”
Felix Eitner: “Klaus”
Floriane Daniel: “Emma”
Birgit Minichmayr: “Karolin”
Sophie Rogall: “Anita”
SYNOPSIS
Ten years after the death of his parents, Rudi and Trudi, youngest son Karl’s life is in ruins: he has lost his job, lives separated from his wife and child and can only appease his dark, inner demons with large amounts of alcohol. Karl no longer knows who he is. Suddenly, Yu pops up like a hallucination, amazing and shrouded in mystery. Yu appears like a sign from a past world and turns Karl’s life upside down. Karl very reluctantly accompanies her to his parents’ empty house in Bavaria – the memories of his parents and his own, difficult childhood are all too vivid. Why won’t Karl’s dead parents let him go? What demons are pursuing him? Yu’s Japanese origins mean she has experience with demons and ghosts. Supported by Yu, with whom he falls more and more in love, Karl fights against himself and his past – in order to do this he nearly dies and has to travel to Japan to find out if he is already a ghost himself or still alive after all.
PREMIERE
Spain
FESTIVALS
German domnestic cinema release 7.3.2019
multiple
Germany
Vancouver International Film Festival
Vancouver
Canada
October 4, 2019
North America Premiere
World Panorama
Mill Valley Film Festival
Mill Valley
United States
October 7, 2019
US Premiere
World Panorama
German Film Festival Singapore
Singapore
October 25, 2019
Singapore Premiere
official selection
Kolkata International Film Festival
Kolkata
India
November 12, 2019
Indian premiere
official international competition
Interntaional Film Festival of India
Goa
India
November 23, 2019
World Panorama
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Tallinn
Estonia
November 28, 2019
Baltic Premiere
Signatures, New German Films
Berlin & Byond Film Festival
San Francisco
United States
DORIS DÖRRIE
Born in Hanover on 26 May 1955, is one of the most important and successful female filmmakers in Germany and international arthouse cinema. She has been represented at countless renowned festivals all over the world with her more than 30 feature films and documentaries. In 2002 she was invited to Venice Film Festival to take part in the Golden Lion competition with her film “NAKED”. In 2008 she competed for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival with her work “CHERRY BLOSSOMS – HANAMI”. The film was subsequently seen at movie theaters by more than 1 million cinema goers in Germany alone. Another glittering highlight of her festival career was her appointment to the Feature Film Jury chaired by David Cronenberg in Cannes in 1999. Additionally, her films have also been shown at, among other places, internationally renowned film festivals in Toronto (“AM I BEAUTIFUL”), Rotterdam, Tallinn and Tokyo (“ENLIGHTENMENT GUARANTEED”), Moscow and Rio (“THE WHOLE SHE- BANG”), Palm Springs and Montreal (“CHERRY BLOSSOMS – HANAMI”).