SCHWIMMSTUNDE

While Mrs. Jacobs gives swimming lessons to the young caregiver Nadja in her retirement home, the two develop a quiet attraction to each other. Even though the old woman secretly longs for it, she struggles with social values and her own feelings, which deny her this closeness.

Director: Lisa Hürtgen
Germany, 2022
9:57 min

Lisa Hürtgen was born in Düsseldorf on May 8, 1995. She graduated from high school in 2014 and studied Practical Filmmaking at the MET Filmschool in London. Since 2016 she has been studying directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. At the DFFB, she realized short films like HERE, FOR YOU or SWIMMING LESSON running on several festivals and the Ghanaian- German Arte web series TALES FROM THE BLUE BUS. She shot her current graduation film DOWN TO EARTH in 2023 and is preparing her feature film debut SHITTY PLANETS.

Lisa Hürtgen, Director of Schwimmstunde (2022)

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