Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.
Winner of Special Jury Award at Encounters section at Berlin International Film Festival. The film was also presented at San Sebastián Film Festival.
The Trouble with Being Born
2020
18 years
94 min.
Fiction
Austria, Germany
Austria, Germany, solitude, memory, futurism, awarded films, female directors
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