Smell of Burnt Milk

Milch ins Feuer
Germany | 2024 | 79 min. 
Director: Justine Bauer
With: Karolin Nothacker, Johanna Wokalek, Pauline Bullinger, Anne Nothacker, Sara Nothacker, Lore Bauer

A drama spoken in dialect about a young farmer making her way in a family tradition.

Milk has been an unprofitable commodity for a while now. Farming in general is suffering, and more and more farms are closing down for good. Traditionally, it's the men who inherit the farm, but Katinka holds on to the family business, trains as a farmer and is seeking her future in a place that remembers how things once were.

Justine Bauer's documentary-style debut film, featuring a cast of non-professional actors among others, paints an authentic picture of rural life in southern Germany in a field of tension between the idyllic and the isolated.

The music of the film is by Canadian indigenous cellist and cmposer Cris Derksen.

Awards and Festivals: 
amongst others:  Young Cinema Award, Munich Film Festival 2024