International Competition

THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER
DAS MÄDCHEN UND DIE SPINNE

• Director: Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher
• SWITZERLAND / 2021 / DCP / Colour / 98’ / German; Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher
• Director of Photography: Alexander Hasskerl
• Editing: Ramon Zürcher, Katharina Bhend
• Music: Philipp Moll
• Cast: Henriette Confurius, Liliane Amuat, Ursina Lardi, Flurin Giger, André M. Hennicke, Ivan Georgiev, Dagna Litzenberger Vinet, Birte Schnöink
• Producer: Aline Schmid, Adrian Blaser
• Production Co.: Beauvoir Films
• World Sales: Cercamon
• Turkish Rights: Bir Film

**This film is screened as part of the International Competition.**

2021 Berlin Best Director – Encounters, FIPRESCI Prize–Encounters

Lisa is moving out. Mara is left behind. As boxes are shifted, walls painted and cupboards built over the course of two days and one night, abysses begin to open up, yearnings fill the room and an emotional rollercoaster is set in motion. A tragicomic catastrophe film about moving. A poetic ballad about change and transience. The Girl and the Spider is the second instalment of a trilogy about human togetherness by twin brothers Ramon and Silvan Zürcher, within which as they put it “the characters wander through a fragile cosmos as if driven by their desires, in which harm can be inflicted just as quickly as affection or intimacy can be shown.”

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.