THE CASE YOU
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Germany (2020), 84 min., German with English Subtitles, Virtual Cinema
Director: Alison Kuhn, Screenplay: Alison Kuhn, Cinematography: Pia Lamster, Editor: Christian Zipfel, Set design: Lucia Eifler, Franziska Herbes, Producer: Luis Morat, Production Company: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Just how far is it acceptable to push actors in the name of cinema? And at what point do you cross the boundary where acting becomes sexual assault? These are the questions raised by the testimony of six young women who were manipulated and sexually abused during an audition. These traumatizing experiences resurfaced years later when the footage of the auditions was released as a documentary without their permission. The women aren’t just fighting back through the courts. They have banded together to tell their story on camera. The director of The Case You, Alison Kuhn, is one of them. This neutralizes the camera’s potentially predatory eye and instead turns the lens into a liberating channel to express anger and demand justice, in turn creating a sort of antidote to the toxic audition.
SELECT AWARDS
Achtung Berlin Film Festival 2021: Best Documentary
Dok.fest München 2021: Megaherz Student Award
Max Ophüls Preis 2021: Best Music (Documentary)
Alison Kuhn studied Literature and Journalism at the Freie Universität Berlin, followed by Directing at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. Her films include: KATHARSIS (short, 2018), ELVIS (short, 2019), SAISON DU CYGNE (short, 2019), DAS LEBEN IST SONNIG UND SCHÖN (short, 2020), NOW IS THE TIME (short, 2020), and THE CASE YOU (doc, 2020).
US Distributor:
Grasshopper Film
www.grasshopperfilm.com
World Sales:
Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
distribution@filmuniversitaet.de
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