Future Frames: Generation NEXT of European Cinema 2024 / Eine Studie in Empathie / Germany, Denmark 2023
Penelope is working on an art project about empathy, and Dana is one of her subjects. But the meeting between the two women does not turn out as Dana had hoped. The initially harmless experiment forces the young woman to question her own emotions and thus herself. It isn’t until the opening of Penelope’s exhibition that we see the many different forms empathy can take. Named Best International Short at the 2023 Locarno International Film Festival, the movie explores the limits of emotional vulnerability and the nature of emotion itself. A meditation on how much our perception of ourselves is dependent on our surroundings, the film naturally approaches its subject with both empathy and a subtle sense of humor.
Anna Kořínek
14 min / Color, DCP
Director Hilke Rönnfeldt
/ Screenplay Hilke Rönnfeldt
/ Dir. of Photography Roxana Reiss
/ Music Leslie Ming
/ Sound Juuso Oksala
/ Editor Josefine Svenningsen
/ Art Director Josefine Friis Lange
/ Producer Asbjørn H. Kelstrup, Maria Møller Christoffersen
/ Production Frau Film
/ Coproduction North Ship Film, Super16
/ Cast Sara Klein Larsen, Emilie Claudius Kruse
/ Contact German Films
Hilke Rönnfeldt (1987, Germany). Filmography: Silence of the Fish (Þögn Silungsins, 2019, short), Fence (Hegn, 2021, short), A Study of Empathy (Eine Studie in Empathie, 2023, short).
German Films
Herzog-Wilhelm- Str. 16, 80331, München
Germany
Phone: +49 895 997 870
E-mail: [email protected]
Hilke Rönnfeldt
Film Director
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