With: Julia Jentsch (Astrid), Bjarne Mädel (Markus), Johanna Gastdorf (Beate), Emilia Pieske (Nele), Maria-Victoria Dragus (Kati), Karina Plachetka (Isa), Sabine Wolf (Katja)
Director: Anne Zohra Berrached
Producers: Melanie Berke, Tobias Büchner, Thomas Kufus
Production co: Zero One Film, Das kleine Fernsehspiel, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Screenplay: Carl Gerber, Anne Zohra Berrached
Photography: Friede Clausz
Editor: Denys Darahan
Music: Jasmin Reuter
REVIEWS

“The second feature from Anne Zohra Berrached addresses one of the most difficult decisions that a woman may have to make in her life. Astrid (Julia Jentsch) must choose whether or not to have a late term abortion when she discovers that her unborn child’s health is severely compromised. It’s a highly emotive subject and Berrached does not give her characters an easy ride. Through a combination of unflinching, high quality performances and some assiduous button-pushing, Berrached has put together a wrenchingly affecting picture.”

— Wendy Ide, Screendaily

“Berrached’s movie, anchored by Julia Jentsch’s meticulous and quietly forceful performance, is the rare pregnancy drama to focus even more on a woman’s mind than her body, rendering the option to abort not as one consolidated do-or-don’t decision but as a web of multiple, overlapping, carefully weighed quandaries. It offers complex portraits of multiple characters in her domestic sphere without hedging on whose story this finally is, and follows a narrative track that feels at once implacable and unpredictable.”

— Nick Davis, Film Comment
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Monday, 16 April, 8:00pm

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Monday, 23 April, 6:15pm

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