Main Competition

Grand Jeté

1 hr. 45 min. | Drama | N-18

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In search of a new orientation in life, a former ballet dancer Nadja returns to her mother's. There she meets Mario, her son, who she left as a teenager and let him grow up with her mother. The two have hardly ever met and feel physically attracted to each other from the first moment. Gradually, they develop an intense, passionate relationship beyond moral conventions. Their physical encounters become more and more a struggle to define one’s own self and a recognition in the other.

Isabelle Stever

Isabelle Stever

Isabelle Stever studied maths at TU Berlin and then film directing at the DFFB. Her graduation film Portrait of a Married Couple won the First Steps Award. Since then, her feature films have regularly been invited to international festivals. Alongside her work as a director and screenwriter, she is also a lecturer at the DFFB, the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. In 2021, she's been honored with a fellowship at Villa Aurora, LA.
Languages
German
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Produced
2022: Germany

Film information

Director
Isabelle Stever
Producers
Armin Hofmann, Frank Geiger, Mohammad Farokhmanesh
Screenplay
Anna Melikova
Music
Thomas Mehlhorn
Cinematography
Constantin Campean
Cast
Sarah Nevada Grether, Emil von Schönfels, Susanne Bredehöft

Screenings

Friday, 18 November

20:50

Forum Cinemas Vingis · 10

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Saturday, 19 November

17:00

Forum Cinemas Kaune · 3

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Sunday, 20 November

21:40

Forum Cinemas Vingis · 12

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Sunday, 20 November

15:10

Forum Cinemas Kaune · 3

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