The Trouble with Being Born

The Trouble with Being Born

2020 · 94 min · DE · 5.3 (33 votes)
Dir. Sandra Wollner · Starring Lena Watson, Dominik Warta, Ingrid Burkhard, Jana McKinnon, Simon Hatzl, Susanne Gschwendtner · Music Peter Kutin
Science FictionDrama

Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo… The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.

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A hauntingly beautiful and deeply unsettling exploration of artificial consciousness. It's a quiet, dreamlike journey through fragmented memories and the unsettling nature of existence, leaving you with a profound sense of unease and wonder.

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