Sleep With Your Eyes Open – mit anschließendem Filmgespräch mit der Regisseurin

In the organizer's words:

Film series of the Kunsthalle München at the Theatiner Filmkunst Kino, Theatinerstrasse 32.

On the occasion of the exhibition Civilization: How we live today

Guest: Director Nele Wohlatz! With film talk afterwards.

BR/AR/DE 2024, 97 min., mandarin / port. / span. / engl. / dt. O.w.U.

A quiet and fantastically told comedy between languages about friendship and exile in the age of globalization.

A coastal metropolis in Brazil. Kai from Taiwan lands with a broken heart to take a vacation. A coincidence leads her to Fu Ang's umbrella store. He could become a friend, but the rainy season fails to materialize and his store disappears. While searching for Fu Ang, Kai discovers the story of Xiaoxin and a group of Chinese workers in a posh skyscraper. Kai finds himself strangely mirrored in Xiaoxin's story.

Main characters come and go unexpectedly in this quiet comedy of misunderstandings. From one city to the next, they follow the necessities of work rather than a classical dramaturgy. FIPRESCI PRIZE of the Encounters section of the Berlinale 2024!

"Creates a familiarity with poetic casualness that is stronger than the feeling of alienation." Tagesspiegel