Obedient, dutiful, devoted to family, and driven to excel — from a young age, we were told this is what a "good child" looks like. But what if all of this could simply be programmed? Come and see
THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN, the story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us. Screening this month as part of
German Film Forum: Strangers at Home!
Director: Sandra Wollner
Austria, Germany / 2020 / 94’
In German with English subtitles
In the near future, ten-year-old android Elli drifts through shifting identities, built to embody memories, desires, and losses that are not her own. Programmed as the perfect child, she moves like a ghost between families, becoming at once a vessel for longing and a mirror of hidden fears and forbidden intimacy. With unsettling atmosphere and hypnotic precision, Sandra Wollner’s provocative second feature blurs the boundaries between memory and code, family and fabrication, offering a haunting meditation on loneliness, desire, and the uncanny ways we seek to keep the past alive.
2020 Encouters Award – Special Jury Prize, Berlinale
2021 Best Film, Best Cinematography, German Film Critics Association Awards
2021 Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Makeup, Austrian Film Award
► WATCH A CLIP HERE
20.3. (Fri) 19:30 | Hong Kong Film Archive Cinema
25.3 (Wed) 17:50 | Broadway Cinematheque
※ Students at Goethe-Institut enjoy a 20% DISCOUNT!
