Everybody wants to be loved

A blisteringly hot summer day. Psychotherapist Ina notices something is wrong with her. But she doesn’t have time to worry about it: Patients are waiting at the practice, her daughter is threatening to move in with her father, her boyfriend wants to emigrate to Finland, and her self-centered mother is celebrating her 70th birthday. Ina wants to please everyone. But then everything changes.

***Winner BEST SCREENPLAY at the 39th Munich Film Festival / New German Cinema***

***over 100 festival screenings worldwide and more than 60 awards***

‘Pointed, full of quiet suspense, never losing its fine line and lightness’ (Filmfest München)

‘Anne Ratte-Polle in brilliant top form’ (Festival des deutschen Films)

‘With an outstanding Anne Ratte-Polle’ ‘…magnificently authentic’ (artechock.de)

‘Fine and refined’ (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

‘The film is very funny… very truthful. The film has a beautiful tragedy. Definitely go in. Great film!’ (BR KINOKINO)

‘Katharina Woll handles her delightful debut feature film with the grace and sensitivity of a much more experienced filmmaker’ ‘excellent feature… What Woll does next should be worth the wait.’ (thefilmverdict.com)

‘One recognizes oneself and others perfectly in the only slightly overdrawn characters.’ (film-rezensionen.de)

‘intensely embodied psychologist…. sharp-tongued tragicomedy’ (Tagesspiegel)

‘A sophisticated character mesh of conflicting wants & needs…. The film’s dialogue is sharp, believable, and goes to the heart of relationship conversations. That’s what makes them so painful – and so entertaining.’ (Jury Filmfest München – Almila Bagriacik, Sönke Wortmann, Ingo Fliess)

‘This cleverly observed comedy shows how social constraints and contradictory expectations constrict our lives. Katharina Woll tells the story with a fine sense for the delicate pitfalls of interpersonal relationships.’ (CINEMA)

‘A debut worth seeing (…) in masterfully excerpted images and scenes (…) multi-layered and contradictory-absurd like the lives of many women in their mid-forties with an academic background and a family blackmail wormhole. (…) A director to remember.’ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

‘The wonderful tragicomedy (…) tells (…) with precision, humor and class’ (Süddeutsche Zeitung / TV premiere)

‘A precise and tragicomic masterpiece (…) excellent actresses’ (Prisma)

‚With a strong leading actress.’ (Tagesspiegel)

‘A brilliant performance by Anne Ratte-Polle as a stressed therapist. (…) The best of the (TV) week.’ (Hörzu zur / TV premiere)

‘Highlight of the week (…) top-class actors and actresses enchant in a summer tragicomedy about the many pitfalls of life. Normal life has rarely been captured so precisely, cleverly and tragicomically’ (Stern / TV premiere)

‘Tip of the day (…) cleverly observed comedy. Katharina Woll tells her story with a fine sense for the delicate pitfalls of interpersonal relationships.’ ( TV Spielfilm / TV premiere)

Produced by Deutschen Film- und Fernsehakedemie Berlin and Zeitgeist Filmproduktion. Co-produced by ZDF – Das kleine Fernsehspiel and Katharina Woll. Financed by Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg.

Theatrical release in Germany: 8th March 2023 – Int’l Women’s Day (Camino Filmverleih)

Free-TV Premiere: ZDF  20th of August 2024, 20:45