The Trouble with Being Born

61st TIFF: Greek premiere

Elli is an android in the body of a little girl, living with a man she calls “father,” whose memories she has been programmed to share. One idle summer night, she sets off to the woods, summoned by a fading echo. A cinematic reverie that submerses us into a world of riddles and voids, challenging the absolute authority of memory. Deprived of this identity-defining mechanism, human existence can only succumb to the chaos of meaninglessness.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Sandra Wollner

Script: Sandra Wollner, Roderick Warich

Cinematography: Timm Kröger

Editing: Hannes Bruun

Sound: Peter Kutin

Music: David Schweighart, Peter Kutin

Actors: Lena Watson, Dominik Warta, Ingrid Burkhard, Jana McKinnon, Simon Hatzl

Production: Panama Film

Producers: Lixi Frank, David Bohun

Co-production: The Barricades, ZDF / Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, Filmakademie Baden-Württemburg

Co-producers: Andi G Hess, Astrid Schäfer, Viktoria Stolpe, Timm Kröger

Sets: Pia Jaros

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Austria, Germany

Production Year: 2020

Duration: 94'

Contact: Cercamon Dorian Magagnin (Cercamon World Sales) dorian@cercamon.biz

Awards/Distinctions: Encounters Award - Special Jury Prize – Berlin IFF 2020

Sandra Wollner

Sandra Wollner was born in 1983 in Styria, Austria. For her first feature film The Impossible Picture she received the German Film Critics‘ Award in 2019. The Trouble with Being Born is her graduation film at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg.