Kino Monoplexx: In die Sonne schauen (German)

A secluded four-sided farm in Altmark. The walls have been breathing the life of the people who live here for over a century, their tastes, their being in time. LOOKING INTO THE SUN tells the story of four women from different eras – Alma (1910s), Erika (1940s), Angelika (1980s), and Nelly (2020s) – whose lives are hauntingly intertwined. Each of them experiences her childhood or youth on this farm, but while they wander through their own present, traces of the past reveal themselves – unspoken fears, repressed traumas, buried secrets. Alma discovers that she was named after her deceased sister and believes she must follow the same fate. Erika loses herself in a dangerous fascination for her disfigured uncle. Angelika balances between a longing for death and a thirst for life, trapped in a fragile family system. Nelly, who grows up in apparent security, is haunted by intense dreams and the unconscious burden of the past. When a tragic event on the farm repeats itself, the boundaries between past and present begin to waver.

LOOKING INTO THE SUN also targets our present and our rapidly changing experience of history and epochal change. A film that digs deep into our perception and stages the sensation where the feeling is most fleeting: in the quickly fading feeling of time.

D 2025 / 149 min; DF
Director: Mascha Schilinski
With: Lena Urzendowsky, Hanna Heckt, Luise Heyer, Susanne Wuest, et al.

Price: € 10.00