A girl so quiet she's drowning — and the river doesn't care.
A silent storm unleashes itself in the soul of Anna, a seemingly quiet girl who lives in a city with a river running through it. Anna lets things wash over her, never joining in, submerged as she is in a lethargy that she'll have to do something about.
Acting
Jana Thies does devastation through stillness — devastating minimalism.
Cinematography
That river haunts every frame; water as character, not metaphor.
Director
Tomasz Thomson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Thomson shot on location in Wrocław, Poland, using the Oder River's industrial decay to mirror Anna's interior state — the city itself performs grief.
Jana Thies was a theater actor with zero film credits; Thomson found her in a Berlin conservatory and built the entire production around her uncanny stillness. She never made another movie.
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