38th edition
17-25 january 2026
Image Effi
Germany
2004 Fiction 17 min
Effi is celebrating her birthday. She blows out the candles and opens her eyes. What's wrong with her family? Why does her mother have a headache? Why does her father sit looking out the window all day? Effi goes off with her friend N in search of a time where everything is as it should be: completely normal.
With : Paula González Moya, Alexander Skiba, Lotte Agger, Judith van der Werff, Thorsten Merten, Gertraud Kreißig-Strehle
Screenplay : Leis Bagdach
Image : Kirsten Weingarten
Sound : Emannuel Hoisl
Music : Carsten-Stephan Graf von Bothmer
Editing : Ana Calvo Do-Allo
Production : HFF / Potsdam
Constanze Knoche was born in Magdeburg in 1975. She studied film and dramatic art in Leipzig and Vienna before going on to study directing at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen in Potsdam in 2001. Effi is her graduation film.