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Layla Fourie

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Pia Marais | Germany, South Africa, France, Netherlands, 2013
Fiction Feature | FF2024
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With her first English-language production, Pia Marais returns to S Africa. Layla Fourie is a gripping thriller about a country between suspicion and paranoia, where the traces of apartheid are still to be found. Layla lives with her young son in Johannesburg and has fought hard to get a job in a security company specializing in lie detectors. On the way to her new job in a distant casino resort, she accidentally runs someone over. For fear of the consequences, she gets rid of the body. When she meets Eugene at her new job, she doesn’t know that he is the son of the accident victim. But with the burgeoning love affair, Layla is in ever greater danger of being found out.

 

 

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PIA MARAIS (*1971 in Johannesburg) grew up in South Africa and Sweden and studied Film at the German TV and Film Academy in Berlin. Her debut Die Unerzogenen (2007) won several awards, including the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival, while Layla Fourie (2013) got an Honourable Mention at the Berlinale. In 2010, FILMFEST HAMBURG showed her film Im Alter von Ellen.

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Layla Fourie

Fiction Feature

English

Kaleidoscope | FF2024


Germany, South Africa, France, Netherlands

2013

108 min

OV with German subtitles

Pia Marais

Horst Markgraf, Pia Marais

Rayna Campbell, August Diehl, Rapule Hendricks

Claudia Steffen, Christoph Friedel

André Chemetoff

Herman Pieëte

Chris Teerink, Mona Bräuer

Bachar Khalife

Petra Barchi

Maleen Nokel

Pandora Film Produktion GmbH

Dv8 Films / Spier Films, Topkapi Films, Cinema Defacto

WDR, ARTE

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