A locksmith walks into a fairytale heist and nobody's porridge is safe.
When lonely locksmith 'Goldilocks' gets called to a night-time job to unlock a young woman's apartment door, she suddenly finds herself in the middle of a bizarre heist which could turn her life into a modern fairy tale.
Writing
Tight 25-minute structure that knows exactly when to exit.
Production
Resourceful night-shooting that turns budget constraints into atmosphere.
Acting
Katharina Goebel's deadpan desperation as a woman breaking into her own life.
Director
Philipp Straetker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Philipp Straetker funded this through a regional German film collective, explaining the zero-budget aesthetic that critics oddly praised as 'intentional intimacy.'
Released during peak pandemic isolation, the film's accidental resonance with locked-down loneliness made it a cult streaming discovery despite its 0.0 TMDB rating reflecting obscurity, not quality.
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