GLÜCK/BLISS

2021

A film by Henrika Kull

In co-production with ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel

Supported by BKM, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and DFFF

German distributor: Salzgeber & Co. Medien, World Sales: Reel Suspects

In German theatres from 22.07.2021

SYNOPSIS:

Sascha has been working in the Berlin brothel “Queens” for many years. Maria is the new girl, she is independent, maverick and queer. Sascha is immediately drawn to this otherness, Maria in turn is fascinated by Sascha’s supreme ease. The attraction becomes a love that works differently than anything either has experienced before. A promise of great happiness. But then their connection starts to tremble – because of their fear of showing each other their true selves and facing their own abysses.

CAST:

Katharina Behrens, Adam Hoya, Jean-Luc Bubert

TEAM:

• Writer / Director: Henrika Kull

• Producer: Martin Heisler

• Commissioning Editor: Burkhard Althoff

• Director of Photograhy: Carolina Steinbrecher

• Editors: Henrika Kull, Anna-Lena Engelhardt, Hannah Schwegel

• Music: Dascha Dauenhauer

• Production Designers: Theresa Reiwer, Theresa Bischof

• Costume Designer: Wiebke Lebus

• Sound: Manja Ebert

WORLD PREMIERE 2021

• 71. Int. Filmfestspiele Berlin - Berlinale Panorama

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

• Zinentiendo, Zaragoza, Spain

• Mix Milano, Milan, Italy

• Queer Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

• Bergen International Film Festival, Bergen, Norway

• Out on Film Atlanta LGBTQ Film Festival, Atlanta, USA

• ★ BEST FILM

• OutShine Fort Lauderdale FF, Fort Lauderdale, USA

• Way OUT West IFF, Alburqueque, USA

• New Fest New York LGBT FF, New York, USA

• Mix Copenhagen FF, Copenhagen, Denmark

• Demakijaz Womens Film Festival, Lublin, Poland

• Lesgaicinemad, Madrid, Spain

• Scanorama European FF, Vilnius. Lithuania

• Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel

• Side by Side LGBT IFF, Saint Petersburg, Russia

• Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia

• Pinkapple Schwullesbisches Film Festival, Zurich, Switzerland

• Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival, Ukraine

• Biografilm Festival – International Celebration of Lives, Bologna, Italy

• Mostra Fire! Barcelona LGBTQ Film Festival, Barcelona, Spanien

• Frameline, San Francisco, USA

• New Horizons International Film Festival, Breslau, Poland

• MICGénero, Mexico City, Mexico

• Seoul International Women's Film Festival, South Korea

• Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, China

• Buenos Aires German Film Festival, Argentina

• Prague International Film Festival – Febiofest, Czech Republic

• Helsinki International Film Festival, Finland

• Taipei Film Festival, Taiwan

• Hamburg intl. Queer Film Festival

• Festival du nouveau Cinema, Montreal, Canada

• Seattle Queer Film Festival, USA

• ★ Best Narrative Feature Award

• Out on Film, Atlanta LGBTQ Film Festival, USA

• ★ Best International Film

• Festival Augenblick, Alsace

• Festival Chéries-Chéris - Paris, France

• German Film Critics Award 2021

  ✩ Nomination for Katharina Behrens (BEST ACTRESS)

• Festival de Cine LGBTI Centro Niemeyer, Spanien, 2022

  ★ Best Feature Film

  ★ Audience Award