Was an Empfindsamkeit bleibt

Sometimes, I Imagine Them All at a Party

Forum 2026

A film like a house full of dark chambers long closed. Yet every room will be opened: puppet shows, butterflies, colour, light! This autobiographical documentary debut sets out to deprive silence of its power. Fourteen years ago, the director survived an attempted femicide carried out by a schoolmate, who had harassed her before. An act whose subjective and objective inconceivability Daniela Magnani Hüller will not accept. In images of great sensitivity, she uncovers memories, makes her voice audible in voiceover, enabling herself to find a stronger, own perspective – on what happened, the present of the trauma, a future life without fear. She wants conversations to happen and conducts them in large spaces often shot with considerable distance, with a teacher, a school friend, a detective, the state prosecutor; trying to find out why each of them did (or did not) act the way they did. Matter-of-fact, consistent and impressively composed, she reconstructs events and failures and – years after the crime – poses the question of responsibility: to the individuals, the school, the justice system and society. Violence against women – the unfolding of an internal and external perspective.

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by Daniela Magnani Hüller (Director, Screenplay) Germany 2026 German, Portuguese 91' Colour World premiere | Debut film | Documentary form

Crew

Director	Daniela Magnani Hüller
Screenplay	Daniela Magnani Hüller
Cinematography	Noah Böhm
Editing	Melanie Jilg
Sound Design	Andrew Mottl
Producer	Birgit Schulz
Executive Producer	Birgit Schulz

Produced by

Bildersturm Filmproduktion

Köln, Germany

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Daniela Magnani Hüller

Daniela Magnani Hüller is a German-Brazilian filmmaker born in Munich in 1995. After completing her Abitur, she lived in Rio de Janeiro before studying documentary filmmaking at the University of Television and Film Munich. She has written, directed and edited multiple short films. In 2023 she received the DOK.Talent Award at DOK.fest Munich. Sometimes, I Imagine Them All at a Party is her autobiographical, documentary feature debut.

Filmography

2020 Frei sein (Breaking); short documentary 2022 Atide; short documentary · Driving Force; short documentary 2023 Arthrocalypse; short documentary 2024 Rauswachsen (Growing Pains); short documentary, Berlinale Special 2024 2026 Was an Empfindsamkeit bleibt (Sometimes, I Imagine Them All at a Party); documentary

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2026