5th - 9th of March 2020

Pamçka

Elda Sorra - 2018 - Germany - 12 min

Axi, the mother’s Pekingese dog has died. Marina the younger daughter, who still lives with her mother, is instructed to go and get Greta, her older sister. Greta, who tries to distance herself from her family, reluctantly follows their request and learns at lunch that the mother, while burying the dog in the garden, has made a finding, which apparently belonged to the long-dead father. Arrangements have been made to get rid of the fund and Greta, who does not want to know anything about it, finds herself in the midst of it. This whimsical tragicomedy short film portraits a fragment of an unusual mother-daughter relationship with strong, but somewhat headstrong women and a weird situational comedy.

This film will be screened in our short film program Life Goes On.

Director: Elda Sorra

Elda Sorra was born in 1978 in Tirana/ Albania and grew up in Lemgo (North Rhine-Westphalia) after she and her parents flew to Germany in 1990. From 2000 to 2004 she studied acting in Cologne at the "Arturo Schauspielschule" and had several engagements in different theaters after. She also appeared in many well-known German films and TV productions. „Pamçka“ is Elda Sorra’s debut as a director for which she also wrote the screenplay herself.