THE GOOD SISTER at the 73. San Sebastián Film­fes­ti­val

Journal,

We are pleased to announce that the diplo­ma film THE GOOD SISTER (D: Sarah Miro Fis­ch­er, S: Sarah Miro Fis­ch­er & Agnes Maa­gard Petersen, DoP: Sel­ma von Pohlheim Gravesen, E: Ele­na Wei­he, P: Jan­na Fodor & Nina Sophie Bay­er-Seel) has been invit­ed to the pres­ti­gious Zabal­te­gi Tabakalera sec­tion of the 73rd San Sebastián Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val (Sep­tem­ber 20–28, 2025). This sec­tion is con­sid­ered the most open and for­mal­ly free cat­e­go­ry of the fes­ti­val and presents works that stand out for their artis­tic sig­na­ture and the­mat­ic rad­i­cal­ism.

The fea­ture film THE GOOD SISTER tells the sto­ry of the intense bond between young Rose and her old­er broth­er Sam. When Sam is accused of rape, Rose finds her­self in an inner con­flict — she is asked to tes­ti­fy as a wit­ness and has to decide between loy­al­ty to her broth­er and her own moral stance. At the heart of the film is the mul­ti-lay­ered human­i­ty of the char­ac­ters: they are all char­ac­ter­ized by long­ing, pain and per­son­al vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty, make momen­tous deci­sions and cross bound­aries. But Sam’s act is no ordi­nary mis­take — it is vio­lent and destruc­tive, with con­se­quences that reach far beyond the imme­di­ate envi­ron­ment.

The grad­u­a­tion film is a co-pro­duc­tion with Arkanum Pic­tures and Nephilim Pro­duc­ciones and was sup­port­ed by the Leucht­stoffe ini­tia­tive, a long-stand­ing part­ner­ship between Medi­en­board Berlin-Bran­den­burg and Rund­funk Berlin-Bran­den­burg. The project was also made pos­si­ble by Gap Financ­ing from the Young Tal­ent Foun­da­tion Berlin.