TABU LA RASA
Thea’s life seems flawless. But what begins with a small question in her head soon becomes a whirlwind of alternative courses of action and her perfectly composed facade suddenly gets out of step. Will she have the courage to collapse her framework of lies in reality? And what if the greater enemy is not reality but fiction?
Director: Emma Bading
Germany, 2022
5:03 min
The German actress and director Emma Bading made her breakthrough in 2018 with her leads in the comedies “Meine teuflisch gute Freundin” by Marco Petry and “Grüner wird`s nicht“ by Florian Gallenberger. For her role in the TV Movie PLAY she received a nomination for the International EMMY Awards, was awarded with the Hessian Television Award and the Bavarian Young Talent Award. In 2020, the 22-year-old made her director debut at the International Hof Film Festival with her self-developed short film “Unerhört”, a story about the confrontation with a personified menstruation. For that, she received the „Prädikat Besonders Wertvoll“ and was honored as part of the German Youth Film Award. In her work as a director, she deals with socio-critical topics such as loneliness in old age, LGBTQIA+ and women’s empowerment. Since September 2022 she is studying directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
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