Živá Voda / 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.”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 Ángeles 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
Festivals & Awards
2022. HFBK Award of the Hamburg Cultural Foundation
2023. Selected for FIDCampus, FIDMarseille
2023. Shortlisted for the Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis
AG Kurzfilm Catalogue, German Short Films 2023