If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile - Movie

If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile

Marie Luise Lehner
Fiction : 88' / Friendship, Family, Coming of Age, Disability

Twelve-year-old Anna switches from middle school to high school. Things are quite different here: the children in the new school come from a completely other social class. Anna feels ashamed of her background and her deaf mother. During the ski week, Anna must pretend to be sick. The money set aside for the ski course is spent on buying a sofa bed, which should enable her mother to have a sexual relationship, but also provide the daughter with a bit more privacy. Mara, a friend in class, becomes an ally when it turns out that she also is hiding a secret.

Photo: NGF

/ EXHIBITION

Porto

November 06 | 21h30 | Batalha - Sala 1

Sections: QP - Official Competition
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/ Details

Year: 2025

Country: Austria

Language: german, german sign language, english

Subtitles: english

With: Siena Popović, Mariya Menner, Jessica Paar

/ Direction

Marie Luise Lehner

Austria

Marie Luise Lehner was born in 1995 and lives in Vienna. A filmmaker, author and punk musician. After studying at the University of Applied Arts, she studied Screenwriting at the Film Academy Vienna. She is pursuing a master’s degrees in Directing at the Film Academy and in Contextual Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. She has written scripts, prose and two novels. Her short films have been shown at various international film festivals and her literary works have received many prizes. Since 2012, she has caused a furore with her feminist punk band Schapka.

Photo: Elsa Okazaki