IMMACULATA
2024 | GER | fiction | 2K | 1:85:1 16mm| 5.1 | 23 min
Derya is pregnant, but she hasn’t had sex. As we gaze into her life, a housekeeper in the height of a dry summer, signs of the supernatural and the divine emerge, prompting us to question the true origin of her mysterious pregnancy.
CREW
Written & directed by Kim Lêa SakkalCinematography: Paul Faltz
Production Design: Mayte Hellenthal, Hella Vohrmann
Editor: Benedikt Strick
Music: Caroline Kox, Antonio de Luca
Production Sound Mixer: René Nicklaus
Supervising Sound Editor: Henning Hein
Colorist: Nadia Khairat Gomez
Make-up: Rudeina Konstantini
Costumes: Leah Bauthamy
Producers: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, Claus Reichel, Kim Lêa Sakkal
STARRING
Jan BluthardtDevrim Lingnau
Deleila Piasko
supported with short film funding by Film- und Medienstiftung und FFA
AWARDS
2024 Castrovillari Film Festival
Winner, Jury Award - Best Cinematography (Paul Faltz)
Winner, Jury Award - Best Cinematography (Paul Faltz)
2024 Cannes Film Festival
Nominated, Queer Palm - Short Film
Nominated, Queer Palm - Short Film
2025 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
Nominated, Nominee Grand Prix - National Competition
Nominated, Nominee Grand Prix - National Competition
2024 Hamptons International Film Festival
Nominated, Golden Starfish Award - Narrative Short
Nominated, Golden Starfish Award - Narrative Short
2024 Stockholm Film Festival
Nominated, Bronze Horse - Best Short Film
Nominated, Bronze Horse - Best Short Film
2024 Valladolid International Film Festival
Nominated, Golden Spike - Best Short Film
Nominated, Golden Spike - Best Short Film
FESTIVALS
56. Quinzaine des Realisateurs – Directors’ Fortnight Cannes 202432. Curtas Vila Do Conde – International Film Festival 2024
16. International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala 2024
Hamptons International Film Festival 2024
69. Seminci – Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid 2024
18. KFFK Köln 2024
40. Interfilm – Berlin International Short Film Festival 2024
34. Stockholm International Film Festival 2024
25. Izmir International Short Film Festival 2024
6. Castrovillari Film Festival 2024
15. Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife 2024
37. Festival Premiers Plans D’Angers 2024
18. Vilnius Short Film Festival 2025
47. Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2025
