PÖFF : 2020 : BNFF

Cocoon

Local title
Kookon
Original title
Kokon
Director
Leonie Krippendorff
Country
Germany
Year
2020
Festival
24th Black Nights Film Festival
Programme
IN FOCUS: NEW GERMAN CINEMA
Genre
/mängufilm/

Astoundingly framed, this story captures a summer of change for young Nora, who lives in Berlin-Kreuzberg, an urban landscape that has rarely been captured with such tenderness.

Lena Urzendowsky plays this girl with utmost reluctance, as a silent observer that always runs along with the circle of friends of her bigger sister. It is only when she gets to know Romy that she realises how much her perception of the world differs from that of her peers, juggling their cellphones, trying to fit in desperately. Suddenly music is in the air, all living things blossom, and Nora along with them. The search for the self is captured with authenticity and dreamlike imagery in this sophomore film by Leonie Krippendorff.

Director
Leonie Krippendorff
Screenwriter
Leonie Krippendorff
Cast
Lena Urzendowsky, Jella Haase, Lena Klenke, Elina Vildanova, Anja Schneider
Producer
Jost Hering
DoP
Martin Neumeyer
Editor
Emma Alice Gräf
Production
Jost Hering Filme
Runtime
Language
German
Director
Leonie Krippendorff

Looping (2016), Kokon (Cocoon, 2020)

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