Sort of Grown Up
Erwachsen oder sowas
Summer 2019 in Berlin, two years before graduation. Overlooking the rooftops of the city, Aimee and Anissa are pondering life. When are you actually a grown up? How can you have good sex? What’s the plan after graduation? Grappling with the same questions, Lea is similarly clueless about her future. For now, she’s doing her A-levels and working in a supermarket on the side. It’s only on the dance floor where the 18-year-old feels completely free.
Accompanying Aimee, Anissa and Lea to the corner store, the lake and through the streets of Berlin, this observational documentary provides intimate insight into the world of three young women teetering on the edge of adulthood.
- Original title: Erwachsen oder sowas
- Country: Tyskland
- Year: 2021
- Length: 19
- Language: Tysk
- Director: Marlena Molitor
- Script: Marlena Molitor
- Photography: Moritz Dehler
- Editing: Jana Briesner
- Producer: Marlena Molitor
- Contact: mara.molitor@web.de
Marlena Molitor
Marlena Molitor was born in 1994 near Stuttgart. In 2013 she started working for the film production Big World Cinema and the Encounters Documentary Film Festival in Cape Town. She began her studies in documentary filmmaking at the University of Television and Film Munich in 2016. Her documentary films Február (2017) and Prohlis (2019) have won several awards and have screened at international festivals.