Elisabeth
In the grey edges of former East Berlin, Elisabeth, a young German girl, lives behind closed doors with a father who abuses her and a mother too afraid to intervene. Silence is how this family survives. Desperate to escape, and determined to shield her mother, Elisabeth does the unthinkable: she turns her father’s secrets against him and blackmails her way out of the house.
For a moment she is free. But freedom does not last. Forced to return home, Elisabeth is drawn back into a world that has stayed hidden for years, and the film spirals into a truth that has remained secret until now.
Shot across a derelict farmhouse, run-down East Berlin suburbs, former East German government buildings, abandoned swimming pools and decaying, unsettling structures, Elisabeth lets the ruins of a vanished state mirror one girl’s struggle to break a silence that has outlived the regime around it.