The Trouble with Being Born (2020) (original) (raw)
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Original title
The Trouble with Being Born
Year
2020
Running time
94 min.
Country
Austria
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
Music
Cinematography
Producer
Co-production Austria-Germany;
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Synopsis
Somewhere in Central Europe, perhaps in the vicinity of Vienna, in the near future. Ten-year-old Elli is an android, as we soon learn. She takes shape through programming and this turns her into a fantasy figure. Firstly for a man she calls “Daddy” with whom she lies by the pool and for whom she dresses up in the house at the edge of the forest. Elli is the vessel for his memories, which mean nothing to her, but everything to him. One day he runs after a strange echo and gets lost in the darkness while Elli, who follows him, is picked up by strangers. A new identity awaits her, a new ghostly existence – as a blank screen onto which others can project their loss of the paradise that is childhood.
Awards
2020: San Sebastián Film Festival - Zabaltegi Section
2020: Méliès d'or Award: nominated to Méliès d'or (Best Film).
2021: Austrian Film Awards: 4 awards. 6 nominations
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