The Living Water
22 minutes · Color · 16:9 · HD · Slovakia/Germany · 2023
“To renew her passport, Tereza drives to the spa town where she grew up. Surrounded by tourists, she is neither a guest nor a resident of the city. She meets a young man. He's the only one who notices when she vanishes again.”Official Selection
41. Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
HFBK Award of the Hamburg Cultural Foundation
Selected for FIDCampus, FIDMarseille, 2023
Shortlisted for Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis, 2023
AG Kurzfilm Catalogue, German Short Films 2023
written, directed and edited by Sandra Makhlouf
with Tereza Dodoková, Nikoloz Mamatsashvili
cinematography Lucia Kovaľová
colorist Lucia Kovaľová
sound recordists Nikoloz Mamatsashvili & William Wrubel
sound design Angeles López
sound mix Sebastian Dieterle
colorist Lucia Kovaľová
production Tereza Tokárová, Simona Guzi & Paula Maľárová
shot on location in Pieštany & Dudince, Slovakia
with support from Moin Film Förderung
a film by Sandra Makhlouf
© Geister Film 2023