GOTTESKINDER
GOTTESKINDER
Performance
Hannah has taken a vow of chastity, one which prohibits any physical intimacy before marriage. Matters get complicated however when she falls in love with the new neighbour Max. And her brother Timotheus develops romantic feelings for his best friend Jonas. Deeply convinced that his homosexuality goes against God's will, he fights against his "impure" thoughts and decides to be "cured" of his homosexual feelings in a so-called "spiritual guidance seminar". And so the siblings find themselves at the crossroads as they increasingly clash with their parents and the wider community. The family's values and expectations start to come into conflict with the siblings' feelings. GOTTESKINDER is the feature film debut from Frauke Lodders, one for which she received the Hessian Film and Cinema Award for Best Screenplay back in 2019.
05.11.2024 | 16:30 | Weltspiegel Großer Saal (German version with English subtitles)
08.11.2024 | 15:30 | Weltspiegel Saal 2 (German version with English subtitles)
Frauke Lodders - _d-id="5173">Frauke Lodders studied visual communication at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, specialising in film directing and screenwriting. She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts with honours and has been working as a freelance director, screenwriter and producer ever since. AM ENDE DES SOMMERS is her debut film as a writer and director, for which she has already been awarded the Hessian Film Prize for Best Screenplay in 2019. Her 90-minute graduation film MORPHEUS was made into a film starring Jasmin Schwiers and premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2015. MORPHEUS was subsequently shown and honoured at festivals internationally. She was nominated for the Hessian Film Award in 2018 for her documentary debut UNZERTRENNLICH and was honoured with the Golden Hercules at the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival. The documentary was shown in cinemas nationwide in 2019.
