CYBERPUNK ROMANCE

CYBERPUNK ROMANCE

CYBERPUNK ROMANCE

Director: Joscha Douma
Feature film | Germany, Austria | 2024
98 min | Dolby 5.1

59th Hof International Film Festival
2025

The future is here: via so-called ports – USB-like connections on the head – human brains can be directly connected to computers. This enables things like upgrades (foreign languages! expert knowledge!), virtual buzz experiences and even the networking of multiple brains. A group of neurohackers tries out everything and even develops their own apps. Only Mona is decidedly against this technology, the danger of external control just seems too great.

But then her beloved Milo falls into a neurotechnical coma. All his hacker friends are afraid of a contagious neurovirus, brainbugs or mental malware. So Mona has to install such a port to save Milo. And with this, she enters a completely new world inside her own head. But soon the question arises: who is now the master of Mona’s mind…

With Anna Wagner, Eleonore Weisgerber, Jannik Schümann, Naemi Florez, Nicklas Kingo, Paula Hans, Thomas Mraz, Valentin Hagg

Screenplay Belo Schwarz, Cinematography Sebastian Thaler, Editing Melisa Krasniqi, Production design Christian Strang, Costume design Nuria Heyck, Casting Stephanie Maile, Karl Schirnhofer, Sound Steffen Graubaum, Sound design Manuel Grandpierre, Music Bamdad Afshar, Make-up Heidi Wick, Lydia Geißler, TV Commissioning Editor Stefanie Groß, Birgit Kämper, Christina Voss-Michalke, Claudia Gladziejewski, Executive Production Marcus Boehnke, Production Rüdiger Heinze, Stefan Sporbert, Christian Bachmann, Veit Heiduschka, Julia Heiduschka