SO IST DAS LEBEN UND NICHT ANDERS.

LIFE IS LIKE THAT AND NOT OTHERWISE. — Germany 2024 — Directed by: Lenia Friedrich — 13 min — Production: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln — Producer: Lenia Friedrich

An animated documentary for a very old neighbour – a cinematic declaration of love.

The film is a hypnotic exploration of the spaces that Mrs. Miko inhabited and lost over the course of her long life. Her house-like constellations of memory have merged with those of the filmmaker, who, within the walls of their shared home, dreamily reflects on her own process of aging. The animated sequences move through layers of memory, uncovering artifacts as well as the voids left behind when memories fade.

Festivals 

• Internationales Filmfestival Warschau 2024
• Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg 2025
• Porto Femme, Portugal 2025
• Internationales Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart 2025
• DOK.fest München 2025
• Kinofest Lünen 2025
• Supertoon, Šibenik, Kroatien 2025
• Animix, Tel Aviv, Israel 2025
• Fünf Seen Filmfestival (fsff) 2025
• Viborg Animation Festival, Dänemark 2025

Writer: Lenia Friedrich. Sound: Lenia Friedrich. Editing: Lenia Friedrich. Music: Fabian Widmann, Milan Raduz. Animation: Lenia Friedrich, Studio Huckepack (Friedrich Schäper, Anna Spiridonova), Judith Bornmann. Dialog Bearbeitung: Steffen Pfauth. Mischung: Judith Nordbrock. Production: Lenia Friedrich & Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Producer: Lenia Friedrich.

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