SYNOPSIS
Always calm and thoughtful, Georg is a policeman appreciated by all his colleagues. His younger partner Michael also admires Georg for the harmony he seems to enjoy in his relationship with Anne, an attractive schoolteacher. But as Georg rises through the ranks, he loses more and more control over the carefully maintained facade of his “intact” family life. Gradually, the conflicts that have punctuated Anne and Georg’s existence for years filter outwards: Anne’s desperate fight for recognition, and the traces of domestic violence, now impossible to conceal ... Under the Christmas tree, tragedy sets in “‘But it’s not a tragedy, Anne!’” Yes, it is.

ABOUT
Jan Bonny is a multi-award winning screenwriter and director. His work spans across feature film, art film, theater, and advertising. His graduation film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), GEGENÜBER, starring Matthias Brandt, with whom he still has a close collaboration, premiered at the 2007 Cannes International Film Festival. The film went on to win the Best Screenplay Award at the Munich Film Festival and received a nomination for “European Discovery” at the European Film Awards. In 2018 he was also invited to the Locarno Competition for WINTERMÄRCHEN, a radical portrait of a three-person terror cell. It screened worldwide and received seven nominations and three wins at the German Critics Awards 2020, including Best Film. In 2022 co-written MUSS JA NICHT SEIN, DASS ES HEUTE IST (directed by Sophia Gröning) screened in Oberhausens German Competion and won the Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2022 and Preis der Deutschen Filmkritik 2023.