The Trouble with Being Born
Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo… The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.
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Cast
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Lena Watson
Elli / Emil, Android
No other roles listed
Dominik Warta
Georg
Known for
Without a trace
Vienna Blood
Roderick Warich
Sandra Wollner
David Bohun
Nils Kirchhoff
Ingrid Burkhard
Frau Schikowa
Known for
Toni Erdmann
Come, Sweet Death
Lixi Frank
Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer
Jana McKinnon
Elli
Known for
We Children from Bahnhof Zoo
Black Snow
Andi G Hess
Hannes Bruun
Sandra Wollner Director · Roderick Warich Writer Peter Kutin Composer
Worldwide gross $14K · United States release December 12, 2020 · Produced in Austria, Germany
Box office
Worldwide gross
$13,748
Production
Panama Film
Production
The Barricades
Production
ZDF
Production
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Production
Austria · Germany
Produced in
Languages
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · February 25, 2020
Premiere · Berlin International Film Festival
United States · December 12, 2020
virtual cinema New Directors/New Films
Austria · June 18, 2021
Theatrical
Australia
December 3, 2020 · Theatrical · High impact themes.
Austria
October 24, 2021 · TV · ORF 2
November 5, 2021 · Digital · VOD
November 5, 2021 · Physical · DVD
Belarus
November 11, 2020 · Minsk International Film Festival
Brazil
November 4, 2020 · São Paulo International Film Festival
Bulgaria
October 12, 2020 · Sofia International Filmfestival
Canada
March 28, 2021 · Digital · Pendance Film Festival (virtual cinema)
Czechia
June 18, 2021 · Premiere · Days of European Film
September 17, 2021 · Premiere · Febiofest - International Film Festival Prague
France
September 7, 2020 · L'Étrange Festival
Germany
July 1, 2021 · Theatrical
September 10, 2021 · Physical · DVD
November 15, 2021 · Digital · VOD
November 16, 2021 · TV · ZDF
Greece
November 11, 2020 · Premiere · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Italy
October 30, 2020 · Trieste Science+Fiction Festival
Japan
November 2, 2020 · Tokyo International Film Festival
Netherlands
April 10, 2021 · internet
Norway
October 18, 2020 · Bergen International Film Festival
Poland
November 5, 2020 · internet New Horizons International Film Festival
Portugal
September 7, 2020 · Premiere · MOTELX - Lisbon International Horror Film Festival
April 29, 2021 · Premiere · Fantasporto International Film Festival
Spain
September 19, 2020 · Premiere · San Sebastián International Film Festival
February 26, 2021 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
September 25, 2020 · Odesa International Film Festival
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