We Might As Well Be Dead
Director: Natalia Sinelnikova Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 2022 Language: German
Starring: Ioana Iacob, Jörg Schüttauf, Knut Berger, Pola Geiger, Susanne Wuest
The high-rise building block near the forest is famous for its carefully curated community. As a dog disappears and her daughter refuses to leave the bathroom, security officer Anna faces an absurd battle against the fear, that slowly spreads among the residents and shakes the utopia with a view.
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“Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Natalia Sinelnikova’s assured debut – which features a magnetic central performance by Romanian actress Ioana Iacob – is that it’s her Babelsberg Film University graduation project… it’s a strikingly original, elegantly shot and designed and admirably controlled dystopian satire about the world’s current retreat from rational discourse towards paranoia-fuelled tribalism.” ~ Lee Marshall, Screen Daily