Fion Mutert

An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.

Five young people in provincial Germany. They run into each other and away from each other. They kiss and they fight. It’s their last winter together before they leave school, after that it’s stay or go. A feature film debut of enormous intensity.

Haunted by the memory of an absent, violent father, Paul moves restlessly through Berlin’s night, drifting into fleeting encounters that only deepen his loneliness.