Rock 'n' Roll Ringo
2024 | 100 min | Drama
Funfair, knockouts, broken hearts: Ringo fights for one last shred of dignity. Between carnival performers and guilt, salvation may await.
Larissa Sirah Herden
ActorLarissa Sirah Herden, known professionally as Ronja von Rönne, is a multifaceted German personality primarily recognized for her work as a journalist, author, and television presenter. Her career began to rise with her column writing for the newspaper "Die Welt" where she gained attention for her provocative and engaging style. While her name is not directly associated with films as an actor or director, her influence in media and literature is noteworthy. As an author, she published novels such as "Wir kommen" in 2016, which captures themes of youth and existential queries and resonated well with critics and readers alike. Although her primary recognition comes from literature and journalism, her ventures into presenting and media presence have made her a recognizable figure in contemporary German cultural discussions. Her accolades primarily revolve around her written work and contributions to cultural discourse rather than film-based awards.
Films
Young, Fragile
2020 | 25 min | Drama
A Tinder date encourages young Leonid to live out his own definition of "masculinity" in a world of changing gender roles.
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2021 | 118 min | Independent
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Ruletista
2024 | 20 min | Drama
In Vienna’s Alterlaa — a vast housing complex built on utopian ideals — everyday life unfolds within rigid, carefully designed structures. Behind identical facades, countless lives exist side by side, largely disconnected. At the center of the film is an elderly woman who moves slowly through corridors and open spaces, carrying her dead cat wrapped in paper. As she drifts through her surroundings, her attempts to confront loss take increasingly absurd and darkly comic forms, revealing a fragile ...
Soldatin
2024 | 23 min | Documentary
A young woman commutes between two worlds: while serving in the German Armed Forces, she is preparing for a six-month deployment to Mali – with machine gun training, marching orders, and military drill. At the same time, she lives a different life: in an aesthetic clinic, she treats the faces of a modern affluent society with Botox. A fascinating contrast emerges between the barracks and the beauty salon – between preparations for war and beauty routines, obedience and self-realization, harshness ...
I should have held on to the chandelier
2020 | 70 min | Documentary
In 1985, Ulrike and Olli's paths cross in the dazzling world of Circus Roncalli. It is the beginning of a great love affair with many obstacles. He is a clown living his childhood dream; she is a former nurse from Berlin who joins the circus. What begins as a romantic adventure gradually turns into a story about the challenges of everyday life, creative crises, and growing older. In his documentary film I SHOULD HAVE HELD ON TO THE CHANDELIER, released in 2020, director Diego Hauenstein sensitively ...
Young, Fragile
2020 | 25 min | Drama
Leonid (Jonathan Berlin) is still mourning an old relationship. His friends, the couple Max (Rafael Gareisen) and Toni (Svenja Jung) are supportive, but he longs for a different kind of closeness. On a date he meets Leyli (Larissa Sirah Herden), who is older and more self-confident and they end up spending the night together. Leonid begins to explore his own definition of masculinity ... A modern reflection on love, sexuality and role models.
Music
2014 | 38 min | Drama
At work, Adam incarnates the persistent official, who checks substandard dwellings with an unruffled expression. He wants to do something different, something like music. His teenage daughter is ruthlessly direct in saying what she thinks of her father: he is a "victim" (and that's meant as an insult), because he still lives in his own debt-riddled home, which the rest of the family has long moved out from. And he is embarrassing because he never says or does anything that she can brag MUSIC is ...
On the margins
2015 | 82 min | Documentary
In Margina, Ljupcho Temelkovski accompanies a Roma family in Macedonia. The film observes the laborious everyday life of the characters, marked by deprivation, humiliation and racism. The many-member family lives together in cramped conditions. The men try to earn money with informal odd jobs and show great talent for improvisation. Margina was shot over a long period of time with a 3-person team. The film succeeds in getting surprisingly close to the people in their private everyday lives. The ...
Tuvalu
1999 | 91 min | Drama
TUVALU is an island the main characters dream about as a place of refuge. A dream that seems unlikely to come true, given the fact that they are cut off from the outside world in a once opulent but now run-down and largely deserted swimming pool. "A small sensation" (Spiegel.de)
In die Welt - Into the World
2009 | 87 min | Documentary
In all its intensity and diversity, the everyday miracle of birth is shown with the means of direct cinema, without commentary, interviews or explanation, and connected to the cycle of standardized processes in the Viennese hospital. A chronicle of the beginning of life and its organization. "Sober and at the same time of physical force, intimate, yet not voyeuristic, distanced, but never apathetic." (Jury statement Duisburger Filmwoche) "The balance of the design draws us into the spell of the ...
Tomorrow I Leave
2024 | 75 min | Documentary
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