Živá Voda
The Living Water

film type fiction Production Country Germany, Slovakia production year 2023 runtime 21'30 colour Color
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Mono original-language Arabic, German, Slovak subtitles English

In order to renew her passport, Tereza drives to the spa town where she grew up. Surrounded by tourists, she is neither a guest nor a resident of the city. She meets a young man. He is the only one who notices when she vanishes again.

director Sandra Makhlouf Production Tereza Tokárová DOP Lucia Kovalova Sound Design Nikoloz Mamatsashvili Script Sandra Makhlouf Editing Sandra Makhlouf film school Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg (HfbK)
Awards
2022 Abschlussfilm HFBK Film Preis der Hamburgischen Kulturstiftung 2022
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Sandra Makhlouf

Sandra Makhlouf, born 1997 into a Czechoslovak-Syrian household in Slovakia. Since 2012 she has lived in Germany. In 2017 she began her studies at the HFBK Hamburg under Professor Angela Schanelec. Her thesis film ŽIVÁ VODA was awarded the HFBK Prize of the Hamburg Cultural Foundation.

Filmography
2020 Best Away
2021 Mittwoch
2022 Živá Voda