Immaculata

Immaculata
France Germany
2024
Fiction
21 min.

Director | Kim Lêa Sakkal
Script | Kim Lêa Sakkal
Director or photography | Paul Faltz
Editing | Benedikt Strick
Sound designer | Henning Hein
Composers | Caroline Kox, Antonio de Luca
Main cast | Devrim Lingnau, Deleila Piasko, Jan Bluthardt, Jule Gartzke, Simon Steinhorst, Eva Hoffmann Villena, Anouk Hoffmann Villena
Producers | Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, Claus Herzog-Reichel, Kim Lêa Sakkal
Production company | filmfaust, In co-production with Collective Cinema

Derya is pregnant, but she hasn’t had sex. In the height of a dry summer, signs of the supernatural and the divine emerge, questioning the true origin of her mysterious pregnancy.

 

About the director:

Kim Lêa Sakkal is a writer, director and producer based in Germany. After growing up in Lebanon, Germany and Spain, she graduated from the Academy of Media Art in Cologne. Her works have been screened at festivals such as Filmfestival Max-Ophüls Prize, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and IndieLisboa. She is currently developing her first feature „A Paradise Lost“ funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.