You are invited to the cinema screening of 'Naked Animals'. This film is part of the Goethe on Demand series 'New Directions - 20 Years of Young Cinema from Germany'. For those who cannot make it to the screening, the film is available on the online platform from 13 March to 19 April!
Germany, 2020
Director: Melanie Waelde
Five friends growing up in a small town in Germany, have to decide whether leave or stay after they finished school. They seek each other, they run away from each other as they kiss and brawl deciding what it seems to be the rest of their lives. A kaleidoscope of violence, love and loneliness where intimacy and pain go hand in hand
Standing in relief from other films of its generation, Melanie Waelde’s NAKED ANIMALS pulsates with daring anarchic intensity and defiant vitality, bearing a directness and authenticity that is frequently attempted but rarely ever achieved. Bolstered by the heady, visceral camerawork of DP Fion Mutert, and charged with torrid performances from a talented young cast, it is a work of rare intimacy and personal candor, initiating us into the tenuous yet no-holds-barred, self-made world of five teenagers, each with their own past traumas. In choosing to live together, entirely without adult supervision, they form—as the film’s title intimates—a sort of insular tribe devised of its own rituals and unspoken language. As the film goes on, their tight clan begins to feel as fragile as it is sustaining, a quixotic communion that is nevertheless a necessary respite from the real world.
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