THE HEAD OF THE CAT
Directors: Harriet Maria Meining, Peter Meining
Short film | Germany | 2021
29 min | Dolby 5.1
55th Hof International Film Festival
2021
Protected from the outside world, a mother prepares her daughter for an unknown future where physical fitness and knowledge are as important as manual skills. When the mother is convinced that her daughter has reached a new stage on the way to becoming a specialist, she presents her with a 13-year-old boy called Dog. The dog is a kind of house slave, but the daughter quickly develops sympathy for him, and in turn, distances herself increasingly from her mother and the latter’s draconian methods.
With OSKAR BRAND, PETRA SCHMIDT-SCHALLER, ROSA LÖWE
Cinematography REBECCA MEINING, Editing REBECCA MEINING, Production HARRIET MARIA MEINING, PETER MEINING, CHRISTOPH KUKULA, EIKE GORECZKA