NOT A WORD (2023)

(2023)

Feature Narrative Competition | Germany, France, Slovenia | German, French, English | 87 min

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About the Film

On a barren island, a mother and son confront years of silence and misunderstandings in writer-director Hanna Slak’s formidable fourth feature film starring Maren Eggert, scored by Amélie Legrand, and shot by Claire Mathon.
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Director

Hanna Slak

Born in Warsaw in 1975, Hanna Slak is a Berlin-based German/ Slovenian film writer, director, editor, multimedia artist, playwright and poet. She studied cinema at Ljubljana and has helmed four features. Not a Word is her first German-language film. She has three earlier award-winning features. The Miner (2017), which won prizes for direction, acting, cinematography and editing and was Slovenia’s entry for the 2018 Foreign-language Oscar, Tea (2007), a feature for children, and Blind Spot 2001. Slak’s experimental doc Laborat won the Berlinale Silver Bear. She has worked on interactive and improvised filmmaking and exhibited video installations and mixed media projects, and developed video design for theatre.

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