Karoline Herfurth, who has helped shape many successful German films as an actress since 2000, has quickly found her own signature style in her directing career since 2016: Entertainment cinema - mostly with her own script collaboration - with the aim of showing real problems and everyday challenges from a female perspective, with pointed dialog, multi-layered characters and perfectly timed situation comedy. And always with the big audience in mind - Herfurth's films are not only among the most successful, but also among the best German productions of recent years.
In December, we will be showing all the feature-length films that Karoline Herfurth has directed (and of course acted in)!

WONDERFUL

DEU 2022. dir: Karoline Herfurth. D: Karoline Herfurth, Nora Tschirner, Dilara Aylin Ziem, Emilia Schüle, Martina Gedeck, Joachim Król, Friedrich Mücke. 131 min. FSK: 6
Five women caught between a tarnished self-image and the supposed need for self-optimization: Their highly successful episodic film is about Frauke, who no longer feels desirable at 50, about her daughter Julie, who wants to make a career as a model, about Leyla, daughter of Julie's manager, who feels rejected by her mother because she is overweight, about Julie's sister-in-law Sonja, who is in a life crisis after two pregnancies, and about Sonja's best friend Vicky, who as a teacher wants to drive out the ideal images of physicality from her pupils.
WUNDERSCHÖN, shot in 2019 and released in 2022, impresses with its complex protagonists and the realistic struggles they have to endure - in the form of a highly entertaining tragicomedy. "Body positivity, neutrality, shaming, unpaid care work or the danger of social networks - conveyed with unvarnished clarity, great images and equally great actors*, between whom the chemistry is excellent."(filmstarts.de)