Say You Love Me

Former ice-skating champion BIANCA (40) devotedly trains her prodigy son MALIK (13) for an upcoming competition. Sensing that Bianca is fantasizing of leaving him, Malik punishes his mother by provoking an accident with his choreographer SERGEI (25). Trapped in their very own cycle of violence, mother and son are staggering between intimate tenderness and a brutal distance, challenging the boundaries of their unconditional love.

Credits

Cast:

Tinka Fürst – Bianca

Arthur Wolfgang Mai – Malik

Joti Polizoakis – Sergei

Camera:

Antonia Lange

Script:

Marijana Verhoef

Producer:

Elena Zurbuch

Editing:

Jil Lange

Music:

Jared Meier-Klodt

Film info

Direction:

Kirsten Brandt

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

15 min