Sinopsis
Anna lives and works in an isolated, self-sufficient apartment complex. Life at the complex is perfect, until one of a tenant's dogs mysteriously vanishes. Even worse Anna's daughter, Iris, becomes convinced that she is possessed by an evil that makes her thoughts become reality. These events set the stage for a maddening descent for some tenants who will become even more paranoid about the outside world.
Russian-born writer and director that emigrated from St. Petesburg to Germany in 1966 as a Jewish quota refugee. She grew up in Berlin. She read Cultural Studies in Hildesheim, focusing on theater and photography, and film directing at the Babelsberg Film University in Postdam. He short film Weeping Willows was screened at various international festivals. In 2016, she was a member of the debut film jury at the Cottbus Eastern European Film Festival and in 2021 she was part of the ZFF Academy at the Zurich Film Festival. Natalia is a member of the network of Jewish artists "Dagesh". We Might As Well Be Dead is her debut feature.
In collaboration with Another Way Film Festival.
Cine Estudio. Círculo de Bellas Artes
International Competition
Year of production: 2022
Duration: 1h 33m
Country: Germany
Language: German with Spanish subtitles
Director: Natalia Sinelnikova
Cinematographer: Jan Mayntz
Cast: Ioana Iacob, Pola Geiger and Jörg Schüttauf
Producer: Charlene Gürntke
Production companies: Heartwake Films, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) and Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
International Sales: Fortissimo Films
Awarded at the 2022 Tribeca Festival
Premiere in Madrid
