Logline
Mary saves the life of a con artist and loses herself in a destructive love for him. A feminist melodrama about a rapt woman who finds a connection to her violent side and setting out to find her own freedom.
Crew
Script: Katinka Narjes
Script: Ines Berwing
Director: Katinka Narjes
Producer: Roxana Richters
Director
Katinka Narjes was born in Frankfurt in 1982 and grew up near Hamburg. She studied film, then went to live in New York, where made her first short films, before moving to Berlin, where she studied film directing at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) since 2009. Narjes' short films have been shown at various festivals in Germany and abroad as well as on German television. NIXEN (2018) was her first full-length feature and premiered at the Filmfest München.
Awards
Script Development funding by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg:
https://www.medienboard.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/Foerderentscheidungen/MBB_Foerderzusagen_Film_September_2020.pdf
INITIAL Stipend by the Academy of Arts:
https://www.adk.de/de/akademie/preise-stiftungen/initial/index.htm