The Ordinaries

07/11/2024 - quanly

Feature Film / Germany/120 min/2022

Director: Sophie Linnenbaum

Screenwriter: Sophie Linnenbaum, Michael Fetter Nathansky

Director of Photography: Valentin Selmke

Production: Laura Klippel, Britta Strampe

Production Designer: Josefine Lindner, Max-Josef Schönborn

Music Composer: Fabian Zeidler

Cast: Fine Sendel, Jule Böwe, Henning Peker, Noah Tinwa, Sira Faal, Denise M’Baye

Synopsis:

Paula is a supporting role aspiring to become a main character. However, just before her final exams, her emotive music generator suddenly starts acting up, which presents a major problem for her. No starring role can survive without a heartrending accompaniment from the strings.

Director’s biography:

Writer-director Sophie Linnenbaum was born in 1986 in Nuremberg, Germany. She studied directing at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. Her short films have received several awards and have been screened at various national and international film festivals. Most recently, her documentary Stories Of Dad (2021) won the FFF Förderpreis Dokumentarfilm at DOK.fest Munich. The Ordinaries (2022) is her graduation film and also her first fictional feature film, selected for the Munich Film Festival.