Agnes, a teacher from the Hessian provinces, has come to Berlin to identify a dead girl who might be Lydia, her runaway daughter. It turns out not to be Lydia, but Agnes stays in the city anyway. Still frantically looking, she comes a young stray called Ines who no longer leaves her side...
Acting
Kathleen Morgeneyer's raw, unsentimental grief will wreck you.
Direction
Speth's documentary background makes every frame feel stolen, not staged.
Cinematography
Berlin as liminal space—grey, unforgiving, oddly tender.
Director
Maria Speth
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