Piaffe

Piaffe

Director Ann Oren

1 hr. 23 min. · Germany, 2022 · Sci-Fi/Fantasy · German · Subtitles: English, Lithuanian · N-18

About the film

When her sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a Foley artist. She struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse, and then a horsetail starts growing out of her body. Empowered by her tail, she lures a botanist into an affair through a game of submission.

Details

Running time
1 hr. 23 min.
Country, year
Germany, 2022
Genre
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language
German
Subtitles
English, Lithuanian
Age rating
N-18

Credits

Director
Ann Oren
Screenplay
Ann Oren, Thais Guisasola
Producers
Kristof Gerega, Sophie Ahrens, Fabian Altenried
Cinematography
Carlos Vásquez
Cast
Simone Bucio, Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Sebastian Rudolph

Festivals and awards

  • Lokarno tarptautinis kino festivalis
  • San Sebastiano tarptautinis kino festivalis
  • Sitges International Film Festival

Sponsors and partners

Supported by
Goethe Institut
Ann Oren

Director

Ann Oren

Ann Oren studied Film and Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her artworks have shown at institutions including the Moscow Biennial for Young Art, the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), the Tel Aviv Museum, the Anthology Film Archives (New York), Apexart (New York) and the KINDL centre for contemporary art (Berlin). After moving to Berlin in 2015, her artistic focus started to shift from video art and installations to cinema. In 2020 sh