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Panorama 2025
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A well-to-do German family – mother Esther, father John and their two children Alba and Philipp – spend the summer holidays in their villa in the south of France. Everything seems perfect. But the façade begins to crumble one evening when, following an accident on a country road, they take in a young woman and hire her as a maid. Behind the family’s initial willingness to help, other motives soon emerge: each family member has their own idea of how they want to take advantage of the woman. But this is a serious mistake that they will soon come to regret and which will dramatically change the life of the entire family – because Teodora has an agenda of her own.
In this impressive debut film, Nele Mueller-Stöfen serves up a seductively casual and quite biting blend of genres and whets her audience’s appetite for more.
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by Nele Mueller-Stöfen (Director, Screenplay)
with Fahri Yardim, Valerie Pachner, Carla Díaz, Naila Schuberth, Caspar Hoffmann, Julien de Saint Jean Germany 2025 German, English, French 100' Colour World premiere | Debut film Rating R 16

With

  • Fahri Yardim (John)
  • Valerie Pachner (Esther)
  • Carla Díaz (Teodora)
  • Naila Schuberth (Alba)
  • Caspar Hoffmann (Phillipp)
  • Julien de Saint Jean (Lucien)

Crew

Director Nele Mueller-Stöfen
Screenplay Nele Mueller-Stöfen
Cinematography Frank Griebe
Editing Andreas Wodraschke
Music Volker Bertelmann, Ben Winkler
Sound Design Noemi Hampel
Production Design Christian M. Goldbeck
Casting Nina Haun
Producers Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade
Executive Producer Katharina Haase

Produced by

Komplizen Film

World Sales

Netflix

Photos

Nele Mueller-Stöfen

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The actor and director was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1967. After graduating from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria, she worked as an actor at theatres including the Kampnagel in Hamburg and in films such as The Sex Thief by Christian Petzold and All My Loving by Edward Berger which screened in the 2019 Panorama. In 2012, she began writing screenplays including for Jack, co-written with Edward Berger, which was selected for the 2014 Berlinale Competition. Her debut short film as a director, Am Strand, won several awards.

Filmography

2015 Am Strand; short film 2025 Delicious

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025