Was an Empfindsamkeit Bleibt

BRD 2026, Documentary, 91 min, FSK 16
Director: Daniela Magnani Hüller · OmeU (German with English subtitles)

Fourteen years after the filmmaker survived an attempted femicide by a classmate as a teenager, she returns to the formative moments and people from back then. In a fragmented, self-reflexive narrative form, she approaches the experience again and meets the people who played an important role for her in the three years around the crime: a teacher, a former classmate, a doctor, a prosecutor, a police commissioner, her half-sister, and a friend in Brazil. In conversations, she seeks their memories of the situations back then – and answers to the questions that have accompanied her all these years. These are memories full of warmth and confidence, but also of coldness and brutality. The journey leads her from Munich to Rio de Janeiro. "Was an Empfindsamkeit bleibt" is a film about closeness, attention, and individual responsibility. It believes that it is possible to live on without bitterness despite experiencing violence – but with an appropriate and perhaps necessary anger. After the screening on 9.9., there will be a discussion with Frauen für Frauen e.V. Leipzig.

Fourteen years after surviving an attempted femicide committed by a classmate during, the filmmaker revisits the defining moments and people of that time.