With: Sandra Huller, Burghart Klausner, Imogen Kogge, Anna Blomeier, Nicholas Reinke
Plot: Based on a true case that ruled in belief of demonic possession. Michaela (Huller) has a disabling history of epilepsy which seems to seep into psychosis. When she gets away from her controlling mother and loving father for the first time at university, her attacks and fits gets worse and more frequent, leading her to believe she is possessed.
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Not a horror film at all, but an intimate drama that is surprisingly warm in places and for the most part functions as a perfectly balanced, brilliantly acted (Huller is excellent) character study of a girl finding her independence while battling a debilitating condition. When the film does raise the spectre of the devil it brings with it no doomy music or genre-styled filmmaking, just an intense sadness as you see the main character falling to pieces as she believes she has no hope. While the film's naturalistic style would suggest that Schmid does think it's all in her head, the answer is left open. The question of what is happening to her never seems to be the real focus though, her life shown in a series of jump cuts and snippets that by turns emotional, funny and harrowing.
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