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A young woman struggles to keep her friends safe as a forest fire threatens their holiday home.
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While vacationing by the Baltic Sea, writer Leon (Thomas Schubert) and photographer Felix (Langston Uibel) are surprised by the presence of Nadja (Paula Beer), a mysterious young woman staying as a guest at Felix’s family’s holiday home. Nadja distracts Leon from finishing his latest novel and with brutal honesty, forces him to confront his caustic temperament and self-absorption. As Nadja and Leon grow closer, an encroaching forest fire threatens the group and tensions escalate when a handsome lifeguard and Leon's tight-lipped book editor also arrive. Christian Petzold’s acclaimed latest was the winner of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival.
"Afire, by the German Christian Petzold (Transit), we follow a pair of friends who decide to seclude themselves in a country house to finish their creative projects, even though, unexpectedly, they are forced to share the house with another young woman. and his lover. Meanwhile, the forest fires get out of control, and the fire gradually closes in on them. Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2023 Berlin Festival and selected to represent Germany at the Oscars, the film is a profound character study loaded with beautiful images and constant tension, where the environmental apocalypse is also spiritual: as the world ends, the fear is not of death, but of connection and love."