Story
DOCUMENTARY What makes a good life? Five sensitive, documentary miniatures shows different models of how to gear up for life and love. A doctor living alone, a patchwork family, a vicar preying, a female worker on a night shift, a couple who own a forest: five lives at the start of the 21st century, five attempts to fill the arc between birth and death with sense, five times normalcy, in which success, happiness and desolation lie close together.
Director
RUTH MADER (*1974 in Vienna) studied direction and won the Max Ophüls Prize for her short film Gfrasta in 1999. Her debut feature Struggle won her an invitation to Cannes in 2003, her documentary What Is Love premiered in 2012 at the Berlinale. In 2017, FILMFEST HAMBURG showed her second feature film Life Guidance. SERVIAM – Ich will dienen had already won the Screenplay Prize in 2005 at the Diagonale and ran in competition this year at the Locarno Film Festival.Trailer
Info
What is Love
Documentary Feature
German
Kaleidoskop//FF2022
Austria
2012
80 min
OV
Ruth Mader
Ruth Mader
Protagonist*innen/Protagonists: Saskia Maca, Walter Scalet, Eva Suchy, Florentina Suchy, Jonas Horak
Gabriele Kranzelbinder
Jörg Gönner
Niki Mossböck
Manfred Plessl
KGP Filmproduktion GmbH
Ruth Mader Filmproduktion: rutis@aon.at
Tags
Female DirectorsDocumentaryLove & RomanceFamily & RelationshipFaithWomenWork