Your phone already controls you. What if it could kill you?
Berlin in the near future: A secret meeting takes place between a board member of the dominant internet company "Freemee" and members of the government. Camera drones film it unauthorized and document the events live on the Internet. The anonymous net activist group "Zero" is publicly committed to the media attack. Online journalist Cynthia Bonsant, widow and single mother, has been asked to do background research on "Zero" by the head of the online magazine "Daily". The group is classified as a terrorist organization, but according to their own statements they fight the excessive influence on the population through the so-called "Act App", which contoles the lives of users. When a friend of Cynthia's 17-year-old daughter Viola is shot dead in a hunt for a criminal, "Zero" contacts her and tries to recruit her for their own purposes. In the meantime, Cynthia has bad suspicions during her research, because soon a new version of the app will be released that will change everything.
Production
Dreary near-future Berlin that feels depressingly plausible
Acting
Heike Makatsch carries maternal desperation convincingly
Director
Jochen Alexander Freydank
Heike Makatsch
Cynthia Bonsant
Sabin Tambrea
Carl Montik
Axel Stein
Tony Brenner
Matthias Weidenhöfer
Geoff Pesceur
Luise Emilie Tschersich
Viola Bonsant
Pit Bukowski
Zero
Fabian Passamonte
Philipp Bonsant
Meriel Hinsching
Janine
Adrian Grünewald
Eddie
Doguhan Kabadayi
Mesut
Sarah Hostettler
Punkerin
Philipp Droste
Jens Lienhard
Mona Pirzad
Fatima
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Freydank previously won an Oscar for short film Toyland — quite a tonal pivot to techno-dystopia.
Released during Germany's heated debates over COVID tracking apps, making its surveillance paranoia uncomfortably topical.
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