Synopsis : "Nina leads a structured life, pursuing an ambitious artistic career. When her teenage son Lars has a strange accident at school, she decides to take a break from city life and together they head to their vacation home on the rugged Atlantic coast. Bound in silence, their already brittle relationship is pushed to the edge. "
Festival History : "Toronto International Film Festival, 2023 Warsaw International Film Festival, 2023 "
Director :
Hanna Slak
Producer :
Michel Balagué
Screenplay :
Hanna Slak
DOP :
Claire Mathon
Editor :
Bettina Böhler
Cast :
Mehdi Nebbou, Maren Eggert, Gina Haller, Marko Mandic
Hanna Slak is a film director and script writer who moves between several narrative languages. She has written and directed feature films for the big screen (“Blind Spot”, 2002; “Teah”, 2007; “The Miner”, 2017) but also documentaries and experimental shorts. Her films were screened at festivals such as Berlinale, Rotterdam, Locarno, Warsaw, and others. “The Miner” was the Slovenian entry for the Best International Film at the Academy Awards 2018. “Not a Word” is Slak’s fourth cinema feature and her first German language film. Slak lives in Berlin with her partner and her children, aged 6 and 16.