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SUN, NOV 14, 2021, 8pm

February 16, 2022 by Susan Taunton

Cocoon

(Leoni Krippendorf, 2020, Germany, 89 mins., Not Rated)
The Loft / $12 (or $10 for Loft members)
Co-presented with Loft Film Fest.

“Leoni Krippendorff crafts a stunningly alluring narrative of female intimacy … Cocoon is worthy of its golden glow.”

—Emily Maskell, Flipscreen

For 14-year-old Nora, the summer of 2018 is one she’ll never forget. The hottest ever recorded in Berlin’s history, it’s also the summer she breaks her finger, gets her first period in the most embarrassing way possible, colors her hair, and falls in love.

With a mostly absentee mother who drinks too much, and a boy-crazy older sister who doesn’t want her around, shy Nora (Lena Urzendowsky, How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)), prefers the company of her caterpillar collection, and spends her time fantasizing about her sister’s friends. But the sweet, cocooned world inside Nora’s head will start to change when punky classmate Romy (Jella Haase, Combat Girls) takes an interest. With nuanced insight into the lives and feelings of her teenage characters, and eliciting complex performances from her young cast, writer/director Leonie Krippendorff also shows a native’s flair for revealing Berlin’s lesser-known locations. Shot in dreamy candy-color in the culturally diverse neighborhood around Kottbusser Tor, this delightfully bittersweet film takes us along on Nora’s journey from naïve child to older-and-wiser young adult.

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