Direction: Jessica Hausner

Direction Jessica Hausner

Cast Emily Beecham · Ben Whishaw · Kit Connor · Leanne Best

Synopsis Alice, a single mother, is a dedicated senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing new species. She has engineered a very special crimson flower, remarkable not only for its beauty but also for its therapeutic value: if kept...

Direction Jessica Hausner

Cast Christian Friedel · Birte Schnoeink · Stephan Grossmann · Katharina Schüttler

Synopsis Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his sceptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. It is whilst coming to terms with this...

Direction Jessica Hausner

Cast Sylvie Testud · Léa Seydoux · Bruno Todeschini · Gilette Barbier

Synopsis In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine (Sylvie Testud) makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains. Christine has been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. In order...

Direction Jessica Hausner

Cast Mia Wasikowska · Sidse Babett Knudsen · Elsa Zylberstein · Mathieu Demy

Synopsis Miss Novak is a teacher who joins the staff of an elite school to teach nutrition classes to young students. Before long, the teacher forms a close bond with five of her students, without the other teachers realising what is...

Direction Jessica Hausner

Cast Barbara Osika · Christoph Bauer · Peter Fiala · Wolfgang Kostal

Synopsis For her directorial debut, Jessica Hausner has created an honest and revealing portrait of Rita, a wilful and unruly teenager on the verge of womanhood. Her sexual awakening leads her to intimacy with a schoolboy too young and a bus...

Direction Jessica Hausner

Cast Franziska Weisz · Birgit Minichmayr · Marlene Streeruwitz · Rosa Waissnix

Synopsis Irene is the new receptionist who discovers that she replaced a girl who vanished mysteriously. When she questions the other employees they react with indifference and hostility, and she soon becomes convinced that she must escape her impending doom.

Direction Jessica Hausner

Cast Susanne Wuest

Direction Jessica Hausner

Cast Birgit Doll · Hagnot Elischka · Hakon Hirzenberger · Klaus Haindl

Direction Jessica Hausner

Cast Claudia Penitz · Andreas Götz · John F. Kutil · Hartha Hans

Synopsis The heroine of the title grows up. Slights, dance school, a cinema of glances, of tender moments, of trivial pop songs. A cinema which takes time, makes observations and which continuously finds or invents opposite picture sequences for loneliness and...