In die Sonne schauen

In the organizer's words:

A secluded four-sided farmhouse in the Altmark. For over a century, the walls have breathed the lives of the people who live here, their tastes, their being in time. IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN tells the story of four women from different eras - Alma (1910s), Erika (1940s), Angelika (1980s) and Nelly (2020s) - whose lives are eerily interwoven.

Each of them experienced their childhood or youth on this farm, but as they wander through their own present, traces of the past reveal themselves to them - unspoken fears, repressed traumas, buried secrets. Alma discovers that she was named after her deceased sister and believes she must follow the same fate. Erika loses herself in a dangerous fascination with her injured uncle. Angelika balances between a longing for death and a lust for life, trapped in a fragile family system. Finally, Nelly, who grows up in apparent security, is haunted by intense dreams and the unconscious burden of the past. When a tragic event is repeated on the farm, the boundaries between past and present begin to blur.

Mascha Schilinski has created a great, epochal film with IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN, a grand tour into the subtlest ramifications of the emotional worlds of these four women. IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN is also aimed at our present and our acutely changing experience of history and the transformation of eras. A film that drills deep into our perception and stages the sensation where it is most fleeting: in the quickly fading feeling of time.