Die Tochter/Dark Blue Girl
2017 | 103 min | Drama
After their divorce, Hannah and Jimmy fall in love again, to the dismay of their own daughter.
Mascha Schilinski
DirectorMascha Schilinski grew up in West Berlin as the daughter of a filmmaker. After completing a screenwriting masterclass in Hamburg in 2008, she studied directing at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg from 2012. Her 2015 short film *Die Katze* premiered at the Max Ophüls Festival and earned awards for Best Student Film and Grand Prix Europe in Brive. Her debut feature, *Die Tochter* (2017), screened in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section at the Berlinale and won prizes at Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival. Her second feature, *In die Sonne schauen* (*Sound of Falling*), premiered in competition at Cannes in 2025, won the Jury Prize, and was selected as Germany’s submission for the Best International Feature Film category at the Oscars.
Films
Recommended for you
Thirst for Life
2015 | 16 min | Drama
A bi-racial couple loses a baby in the fifth month of the pregnancy after getting attacked by a group of racists. They go through dark times but fight with their endless love to become happy again. Yaya, a pregnant white woman, has been attacked by two men. Her Black friend Emeka had to witness everything without being able to help. A third man pushed him to the ground and degraded him. Yaya loses the unborn. She falls into a pit of self-destruction and doubt. Will Emeka be able to catch her and ...
The Sound of Unexpected Death
2019 | 30 min | Independent
A young, frustrated couple are on their way home from a night out. Three friends are in the middle of birthday celebrations at a nightclub. A drunk young man crawls into bed with his girlfriend. A young woman decided to stay home, chatting with a guy on Facebook. Two parents put their children to bed. All of them hear sirens and loud noises in the background. In the end, a policeman walks into the nightclub; however, nothing could prepare him for the scene that greets him inside.
Forward
2011 | 15 min | Shorts
Seventeen-year-old Chris Thesemann lives as a childish oddball and loner in an ideal family world. One day, he disappears from home and meets Lotte, a prostitute in her late 40s. Chris has a very specific reason for seeking out this woman. Her life hasn't gone as planned either, but she takes life as it comes. Director and screenwriter Kim Münster slowly unfolds Chris's life story and family circumstances. The protagonist of NACH VORNE experiences the divorce of his foster parents and runs away ...
The Discarded Father
2008 | 82 min | Documentary
Douglas Wolfsperger explores a social phenomenon that rarely appears in public discourse: men, who after a separation from their wives, are "disposed of" not only as partners but also as fathers and who - often in vain - struggle to maintain a relationship with their children. In moving interviews, four fathers describe their suffering and efforts to keep contact with their children. A mother justifies the refusal of contact from her point of view. Despite the seriousness of the topic, the film ...
Inside you
2008 | 22 min | Drama
A shimmering summer story in a holiday home on the Baltic Sea. Sixteen-year-old Suse feels like a fifth wheel alongside her young mother and her new boyfriend and withdraws into herself. But then she discovers how she can change things in her favor. She just has to use the right means... Using a mixture of youthful naivety and growing cunning, Suse tries out various strategies to win back her mother's attention and undermine the unwanted presence of her new boyfriend. Each day brings new insights ...