What Remains of Sensitivity

Fourteen years after surviving an attempted femicide committed by a classmate during, the filmmaker revisits the defining moments and people of that time. In a fragmented, self-reflexive narrative form, she approaches the experience anew and meets the people who played an important role for her in the three years around the act: a teacher, a former classmate, a doctor, a prosecutor, a commissioner, her half-sister, and a friend in Brazil. In the conversations, she seeks their memories of the situations at the time – 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 takes her from Munich to Rio de Janeiro. "What Remains of Sensitivity" 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. Following the screening on September 9th, there will be a discussion with Frauen für Frauen e.V. Leipzig.