Haunted by an inner conflict, a driven artist, along with her gentle and emphatic daughter, returns to her childhood home to finally make peace with herself and her past. Once there, however, she loses herself in a long-forgotten world.
Cinematography
Forest as psychological landscape—every frame breathes unease.
Acting
Kelz and Kaiser's silences cut deeper than dialogue.
Direction
Landsberg compresses a feature's worth of dread into 24 minutes.
Director
Leon Landsberg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'post coming-of-age' label signals a new wave of stories about adults who never finished growing up—Rahel's return home literalizes the genre's delayed reckoning.
Shot in the Black Forest with natural light only; cinematographer used the 20-minute twilight window for the film's most hallucinogenic sequence.
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