Isy Way Out
Section: Panorama
Director: Mark Monheim, Max Eipp / Germany / 2018 / 89 min
German / English subtitles, Czech subtitles
Milena Tscharntke
20:15 - 21:44
Golden Apple Cinema 3
Mark Monheim, born 1977 in Bonn, studied documentary directing at the University of Television and Film in Munich. His student short documentary MICHELLE was already nomintaed for the German Short Film Award in 1999. He is also a screenwriter and has written several episodes of the crime series TATORT. His feature film debut ABOUT A GIRL has won numerous awards, including the Bernhard-Wicki-Award and the NDR Young Directors Award.
Max Eipp, born 1955, works as an actor, director and author. He writes scripts and plays and was warded with the Golden Camera and the Grimme Award for Fiction for the much discussed TV film WUT in 2007. The film has also been shown internationallly at numerous festivals and has received several awards.
In a brutal mixture of jealousy, lovesickness, alcohol, pills, cocaine and a whirlwind of beats, Isy passes out. Jonas, whose heart she broke, and his friends use the situation to take advantage of her. Afterwards, Isy can't remember a thing and refuses to involve the police. Jonas's father wants to avoid a scandal at all costs and does whatever he can to sweep the crime under the rug. But what will happen if nothing happens? If there is no punishment? The families face an existential crisis that threatens to tear them apart.