Simon Maria Kubiena

Dinner

A son triggers a dispute situation at a family dinner.

At Home I Feel Like Leaving

A young woman returns to her home village after her childlike father had gone missing in the surrounding woods. Throughout her day back home, she is torn between feeling responsible and a deep longing for connection and ease.

At Home I Feel Like Leaving

A young woman returns to her home village after her childlike father had gone missing in the surrounding woods. Throughout her day back home, she is torn between feeling responsible and a deep longing for connection and ease.

Catching Birds

When Theo awakens her sense of desire, Anouk, the only girl on the wrestling team, starts seeing the sparring sessions in a different light. A quietly intimate film, in which relationships between bodies, gazes and feelings are negotiated anew.

Blue Noise

A closely observant film about bodies and touching, proximity and distance and the power of attraction. The aloof Alex works in a training workshop for craftsman where he avoids the attempts of his girlfriend to get close to him physically. At the same time, he’s not at all certain about how to deal with other forces of attraction confronting him . In the small space, between working bodies, behavioural patterns are deciphered and the underlying injuries exposed.

Flight Attempts

A teenager on a motorbike finds his way back home, a remote village in northern Germany, before sunrise. A few children enjoy one of the last carefree summer days there. Under the clear blue sky, they do their first flight attempts and lose themselves playing games which the older ones have forgotten. Nevertheless, this day too is coming to an end and their siblings, who are barely older, take them to dinner and away from their childlike world.

Rain Outside Our Window

One last dance leads into a rush of emotions

Mama

Father and daughter drive to his mother's house on the countryside to bring private items to the hospital after her apoplexy. The father gets confronted with the fear of losing his mother. The daughter observes this realization through children's eyes.

Mama

Father and daughter drive to his mother's house on the countryside to bring private items to the hospital after her apoplexy. The father gets confronted with the fear of losing his mother. The daughter observes this realization through children's eyes.