"[Technology is] always a mirror for our inner darkest, weirdest thoughts.” (Sandra Wollner)
With her intellectual distance and icy formalism, Sandra Wollner is being described as an heir to Michael Haneke with this break-out work which saw her win the Special Jury Prize in the Berlinale Encounters program. In this sci-fi provocation on artificial intelligence, a father has built an android to replace his missing daughter; and is it her ghost voice haunting the machine, which is expected to carry the burden of all his sinister desires? An exceptionally confronting work admired for its absolute daring to explore the moral and ethical questions of the near future.
“ a powerful and revelatory achievement …complex, artfully crafted, sometimes wilfully perplexing” (Screen Daily)
Warning: this film contains high impact sexual themes. Viewers are strongly cautioned, and viewer discretion is strongly advised.
Sandra Wollner
Sandra Wollner is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. She was born in 1983 and trained at the Film Academy Baden-Wurttemberg. She made her feature directorial debut with The Impossible Picture (2016), prior to The Trouble with Being Born (2020).
