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What a Feeling

What a Feeling

KAT ROHRER | AUSTRIA | 2024 | 110 MIN | GERMAN EST

KAT ROHRER | AUSTRIA | 2024 | 110 MIN | GERMAN EST

Feature

Synopsis

In writer-director Kat Rohrer’s multilingual romcom about midlife reckonings, the seemingly disparate lives of two in-control women converge. One an Iranian carpenter whose specialty is unfulfilled wives, the other a German doctor, these Viennese immigrants are united by serendipity to discover that butterflies are possible at any age. After twenty years of marriage, straight-laced Dr. Marie Theres (Caroline Peters) finds herself single, drunk, and stumbling into a lesbian bar. There, she catches the eye of Fa (a magnificent Proschat Madani), who is endeared by her sudden wildness. A series of coincidences brings them back to that bar, into the hospital, and under the sheets, the two clicking over being foreigners in a city they love that doesn’t always love them back. Though pulled apart by family drama and cramped closets (both literal and figurative), they are never quite able to shake one another—no matter how hard they may try. This cheering film, which bursts with Feeling and impeccable comedic timing, is about the modern issues that drive and divide us: our private and public selves, what we owe our families, and the moments when protest beats staying put.

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Filmmaker Bio

Rohrer is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her graduation film The Search won Best Short Film at the La Femme Film Festival in Los Angeles. In 2002, she founded the film production company GreenKat Productions with Tom Greenman. In 2009, her short film Fatal Promises, about human trafficking, was screened at the European Forum in Alpbach. What A Feeling is his first feature film.

Producer

Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Markus Glaser, Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer

Writer

Kat Rohrer

Cinematographer

Michael Schindegger

Cast

  • Ines Kratzmueller
  • Proschat Madini
  • Maximilian J. Modl