Directed by Jan-Ole Gerster
Produced by Schiwago Film – Marcos Kantis & ARTE / BR / RBB
Screenplay by Blaz Kutin
Music by Arash Safaian
Music Played by Alice Sara Ott
and Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin
Conducted by Samy Moussa
Cinematographie by Frank Griebe
Music Supervising by Lena Obara
Sales: Studio Canal (D) / Beta Cinema (World)

 

Synopsis

It’s Lara’s 60th birthday, and she has every reason to celebrate: this evening, her son Viktor will be giving the most important piano concert of his career. Lara was, after all, the one who’d mapped out and driven his musical career. Yet Viktor has been unreachable for weeks and nothing indicates that Lara will be welcome at his debut performance. Without further ado, she buys up all the remaining tickets and hands them out to everyone she meets. The more Lara strives to make the evening successful, however, the more events get out of control.

Cinema Starts:

France: Feb 2020

Spain May 2020

Taiwan 2020

AWARDS

Awards @ 54th  Karlovy Vary Filmfest
Special Jury Price
Ecumenical Jury Price
Best Actress  – for Corinna Harfouch

Awards @ 37th Munich Filmfest
Best Director – New German Cinema Section
Fipresci Critics Price Munich

Awards @ 42nd Filmkusntwochen Leipzig
Gilde-Filmpreis – Bester Film (national)

Hamptons International Film Festival NY
Golden Starfish Award – Honorable Mention
Narrative Feature – Corinna Harfouch – Best Performance

Ljubljana International Film Festival
Special Mention Kingfisher Award
Blaz Kutin – Script

11th Les Arcs Film Festival
Prix de la Presse

Bavarian Film Price 2019
Best Filmusic Award for Arash Safaian

FESTIVALS

54th Karlovy Vary Filmfest – Worldpremiere – CZ
37th Filmfest Munich – German Premiere – D
Festival of German Film Ludwigshafen – D
Oldenburg Filmfest Opening Film – D
Leipzig Filmkunstmesse – D
Zurich Filmfest – CH
Haifa Int. Filmfest – ISR
BFI London Fim Festival – UK
EL GOUNA FF – EGY
43rd international Film Show / Sao Paulo – BR
Vancover Int. Film Festival – CAN
Hampton Int. Film Festival NY – USA
Chicago Int. Film Festival – USA
Ayvalik Film Festival- TUR
Zagreb Int. Film Festival – HR
Ljubljana Int. Film Festival – SL
23rd Black Nights Tallin Film Festival – EST
50th Int. Film Festival of India, Goa  – IND
11th Les Arcs Fiml Festival – France
40th International Cinematographers’ Film Festival Manaki Brothers – MKD
2020 Palm Springs Film Festival – USA
64th Valladolid International Film Festival – ES
43th Göteborg Film Festival- SWE