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Vienna, Austria | Android
Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo… The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us. Directed by Sandra Wollner. Starring Lena Watson, Dominik Warta, Ingrid Burkhard in the lead roles.
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Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo… The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us. Directed by Sandra Wollner. Starring Lena Watson, Dominik Warta, Ingrid Burkhard in the lead roles.
Best Film Bester Spielfilm | 2022
Best Feature | 2021
Best Feature Film Bester Spielfilm | 2021 | Lixi
Best Film Bester Film | 2020
2020 | Dominik
Best Editing of a Feature Film | 2020 | Hannes
Best Feature Film | 2020
International Competition | 2020
Best Film | 2021
Best Screenplay Bestes Drehbuch | 2022
Beste Montage | 2021 | Hannes
Best First Film Feature | 2020
Youth on the March Debut Feature Films Competition | 2020
International Competition | 2020
Best Fiction | 2020
2020
The Melbourne International Film Festival decided to not screen the film at its 2020 festival, citing concerns raised by two forensic psychologists that it might "[normalise] sexual interest in children" and be "used as a source of arousal for men interested in child abuse material." The decision to remove the film from the festival line-up was denounced by film critics Peter Krausz, Tom Ryan and David Stratton, declaring it was artistic censorship.
The few nude scenes of Elli were all created via CGI with actress Lena Watson in a bikini and covered in dots. Director Sandra Wollner pointed out during an interview that she would never have had a minor running around naked on set.
The name Lena Watson is a pseudonym to hide the young actresses's real identity.
The controversial subject matter caused some people to walk out during the film's run at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival. Director Sandra Wollner said in an interview that didn't surprise her.
The android role was originally written for a 20-year-old actor, but after removing some of the more explicit sexual elements in the script, director Sandra Wollner decided to cast a child.
