Pendance Film Festival 2021

The Trouble with Being Born

Expired March 29, 2021 4:00 AM
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The Trouble With Being Born
Elli is an android programmed with memories that mean everything to her owner but nothing to her. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.
Right Side Down
Calvin—a man who was born upside down—signs up for a one-way solo space voyage—longing to escape to a place where there is no up or down.
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The Trouble with Being Born is a 2020 science fiction drama film directed and co-written by Sandra Wollner. An international co-production of Austria and Germany, the film stars Lena Watson as an android who was built by a father as a replicate of his young daughter who disappeared years prior.


Film Premiere: Berlinale 2020

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    94 minutes
  • Language
    German
  • Country
    Germany
  • Premiere
    Canadian Premiere
  • Director
    SANDRA WOLLNER
  • Screenwriter
    Roderick Warich Sandra Wollner
  • Cast
    Dominik Warta Lena Watson
  • Cinematographer
    Timm Kröger
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