LUISA
a Film by Silke Merzhäuser, Julia Roesler
Germany | 2024 | Feature film | 90 min
24-year-old Luisa lives in a residential group for people with disabilities together with seven other residents. She works in a laundry. Unexpectedly, it is discovered that Luisa is pregnant – her boyfriend Anton (Dennis Seidel) cannot be the father as he is unable to conceive. Sexual abuse is suspected. Luisa remains silent. The ensuing investigation becomes an endurance test for her, her boyfriend Anton and the entire staff at the residential facility.
Book: Silke Merzhäuser, Julia Roesler
Director: Julia Roesler
Music: Insa Rudolph
Dramaturgy: Silke Merzhäuser, Tina Kaiser
Camera: Frank Amann
Editing: Anne Jünemann
Set design: Thomas Rump
Costume design: Anna-Leena Rieger
Mask: Hanna Buß
Producers: Andrea Ufer, Gunter Hanfgarn, Silke Merzhäuser, Julia Roesler
A co-production with werkgruppe2 and ZDF/ Das kleine Fernsehspiel
Hildesheim
- Shanghai International Film Festival 2025, Competition, World Premiere
- Mumba International Film Festival 2025, Pune, Competition
- Chicago International Film Festival 2025, Series: Snapshots
- Internationale Hofer Filmtage 2025, Competition, German Premiere
- Biberacher Filmfestspiele 2025, Competition
- Nordische Filmtage Lübeck 2025, Filmforum
- Ahrenshooper Filmnächte 2025, Competition
- Braunschweig International Film Festival 2025, Competition
- HEIMSPIEL-Preis 2025 at the Braunschweig International Filmfestival goes to director Julia Roesler
- TILDA – Best Film by a female director at the Braunschweig International Film Festival [10]
- Ahrenshoop Film Nights Audience Award
- Förderpreis NEUES DEUTSCHES KINO – 51st Hof Film Days to director Julia Roesler
- Best production design – Bild-Kunst funding award for Thomas Rump, 51st Hof Film Festival 2025
- Best Feature Film – Mumba International Film Festival, Pune 2025
- Bremen Documentary Research Prize 2020
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