Feature Film
by Rosa Friedrich
Director: Rosa Friedrich
Producers: Sabine Moser & Oliver Neumann
Producerin: Klara Pollak
Junior Producer: Lena Zechner
Production: FreibeuterFilm
SYNOPSIS
After getting blind drunk at a party, outsider MARIA wakes up with mysterious wounds on her hands. While Maria remembers nothing, fame-hungry BELLA, posts a video on Social Media claiming the wounds are divine stigmata. This video goes viral making MARIA a virtual sensation. A dubious friendship between the two unequal girls intensifies at dizzying speed. But between online healings, holy merch and funny insta-stories, Maria must find her own way as she believes neither in God, nor herself.
Born in East-Berlin, Rosa Friedrich studied directing at the Film Academy Vienna with Michael Haneke and Jessica Hausner, focusing on a playful approach to film language and filmmaking. Her graduation film Potted Palm Trees was selected for Karlovy Vary Film Festival and Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montreal. She was nominated for First Steps 2020 and was part of Berlinale Talents 2021.
FILMOGRAPHY (selection):
2020 – Potted Palm Trees
Joshua Jádi is a German-Hungarian writer and director with a background in psychology and psychoanalysis. He studies at the Filmakademie Wien in the directing class of Jessica Hausner and writing class of Götz Spielmann. He was part of the Sarajevo Talents and the Locarno Academy Summer School and is Vice Programme Director at Film Festival Cottbus. Joshua also served alongside Katriel Schory, Lorna Tee, Katarina Radivojevic and M.J. McMahon on the jury of the European Film Festival Palić.