Margarethe 89

Quinzaine 2023 | Short film | 18 min | France

World premiere

With clear lines and the texture of a felt-tip pen, this animated film evokes the last days of the German Democratic Republic in 1989. Margarethe has been sectioned for being a member of the Leipzig punk community that holds their concerts in a church. The sharpness of the brush renders the historical ambiguity of the moment perfectly.

Director

Lucas Malbrun

Lucas Malbrun is a graduate of EnsAD Paris. His graduation film Quand le fleuve se tait… won the short film award at the Toronto Film Week 2016. He then directed La Clé des champs, an episode of the series En sortant de l’école broadcast for France Télévisions. With Marie Larrivé, he directed the music video Tropicool for Gablé and Saba, which led to an exhibition at the Cité internationale des arts. His next project, The Emperor on the Balcony, was awarded a writing residency at the Villa Medici in 2023.