Hiddensee

The new documentary by Annekatrin Hendel (Union—The Best of All Days,Beauty & Transience,The Brasch Family,Anderson, Traitor to the Fatherland) tells stories of the legendary Baltic Sea island from the Roaring Twenties to the present day, weaving together politics and personal stories into a compelling cinematic experience. Now playing at Kino Intimes.

Hiddensee, a strip of land just 17 kilometers long in the Baltic Sea, is beloved as a place where people long for freedom. Sun worshippers, naturists, artists, punks, and celebrities have always flocked to the island in droves. The documentary takes viewers on a journey through an entire century, back to the Golden Twenties, when the intellectual avant-garde called this place home—including silent film star Asta Nielsen and Nobel Prize-winning author Gerhart Hauptmann. Then as now, Hiddensee is marked by political upheavals unfolding across the entire country. Germany in miniature. Multiple narrative threads, intertwined across time and generations, ultimately lead to the ceaselessly escalating tensions of the present.

In hypnotically beautiful black-and-white imagery, award-winning director Annekatrin Hendel weaves landscape, history, and individual destinies into a fascinating portrait, shining a magnifying glass on movements that extend far beyond the legendary Baltic Sea island. HIDDENSEE is a cinematic experience that is as poetic as it is unsettling, brimming with visual and narrative power.

www.kino-intimes.de/hiddensee