RIPS
Director: Sophie Mühe
Short film | Germany | 2023
41 min | Dolby 5.1
57th Hof International Film Festival
2023
In three distinct narratives, we observe a young woman grappling with the present. Each of them experiences a different incident of loss.
The first plans her mother’s funeral, the second deals with her brother and their father’s death, and the third tries to settle into a new life. While the protagonists deliberate over choices like what to wear at the cremation, how to address their brother after years of silence or what technique to use to cut up spare ribs, they navigate through their worlds with a blend of humor and solemnity. And again and again, the question arises whether pain is divisible.
With André Schauer, Anna Gesa-Raija Lapp, Anne Stein, Annika Meier, Barbara Horvath, Hannah Schutsch, Katja Jung, Lili Winderlich, Max Rothbart, Michaela Steiger, Sabine Malbrich
Screenplay Sophie Mühe, Cinematography Samuel Zerbato, Marie Wald, Mirko Hans, Editing Sophie Mühe, Felix Friedlein, Sound Lukas Mutschler, Production Sophie Mühe, Viviana Koch, Kirsten Wehr, Louisa Eichler, Natalie Seraphim