Was an Empfindsamkeit bleibt

A film like a house full of dark chambers long closed. Yet every room will be opened: puppet shows, butterflies, colour, light! This autobiographical documentary debut sets out to deprive silence of its power. 14 years ago, the director survived an attempted femicide carried out by a schoolmate, who had harassed her before. An act whose subjective and objective inconceivability Daniela Magnani Hüller won’t accept. In images of great sensitivity, she uncovers memories, makes her voice audible in voiceover, enabling herself to find a stronger, own perspective – on what happened, the present of the trauma, a future life without fear. She wants conversations to happen and conducts them in large spaces often shot with considerable distance, with a teacher, a school friend, a detective, the state prosecutor; trying to find out why each of them did (or did not) act the way they did. Matter of fact, consistent and impressively composed, she reconstructs events and failures and – years after the crime – poses the question of responsibility: to the individuals, the school, the justice system and society. Violence against women – the unfolding of an internal and external perspective. (Christiane Büchner, Barbara Wurm, Laura Palys)  

Daniela Magnani Hüller is a German-Brazilian filmmaker born in Munich in 1995. After completing her Abitur, she lived in Rio de Janeiro before studying documentary filmmaking at the University of Television and Film Munich. She has written, directed and edited multiple short films. In 2023 she received the DOK.Talent Award at DOK.fest Munich. Sometimes, I Imagine Them All at a Party is her autobiographical, documentary feature debut.

Director Daniela Magnani Hüller. Screenplay Daniela Magnani Hüller. Cinematography Noah Böhm. Editing Melanie Jilg. Sound Design Andrew Mottl. Producer Birgit Schulz. Executive Producer Birgit Schulz. Production company Bildersturm Filmproduktion (Köln, Germany).

Films: 2020: Frei sein / Breaking (short documentary). 2022: Atide (short documentary), Driving Force (short documentary). 2023: Arthrocalypse (short documentary). 2024: Rauswachsen / Growing Pains (short documentary, Berlinale Special 2024). 2026: Was an Empfindsamkeit bleibt / Sometimes, I Imagine Them All at a Party.