Faltenrock
2019 | 82 min | Documentary
A film about staying young without anti-wrinkle creams. It's about life choices, independence, and an active retirement.
Leonie Kock
DirectorLeonie Kock is a freelance filmmaker working with various documentary formats. Her first feature-length film FALTENROCK (2019), which portrays four regulars of the over-60s party series of the same name, was co-directed with Janina Rasch. In the subsequent essay film “Körperin” (2026), she and her film partner Paloma Llambías deal with their own family traumas, examining the role that the body plays in processing them.
Their works are connected to a personal quest and the desire to create a space for vulnerability and empathy.
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