5th competition entry of the Ahrenshoop Film Nights by Jaqueline Jansen (D 2025, 98 min) Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers
The film tells the story of 25-year-old Lore (Magdalena Laubisch), who spends six weeks in her Rhineland home after the death of her mother in order to fulfill her last wish. In doing so, she has to assert herself against entrenched family structures and a bureaucracy paralyzed by the first wave of Covid. Lore doesn't want to be dictated a way of saying goodbye, and yet she keeps asking herself the same question: what is the right way to grieve? Jaqueline Jansen: "In my autofictional debut film, I shed light on a moment that will affect us all at some point: Being a family member of a dying person. Based on the first phase of mourning, the film shows a true-to-life depiction of the individual forms of a family's mourning process, which in the Roman Catholic tradition ends with the six-week office."
JAQUELINE JANSEN
Born in 1994 in Erkelenz, NRW, grew up on a cabbage farm. As a self-taught filmmaker, she has worked on over forty national and international film sets since 2013. In addition to short films and music videos, she made her first feature-length documentary film NO WAY HOME in Germany and the USA between 2014 and 2017. SECHSWOCHENAMT is her first long, autofictional feature film, which won awards at the Munich Film Festival for Best Producer and Best Actress (Magdalena Laubisch), among others.
