About this episode
German director Eva Trobisch is back at the Berlinale, after presenting her second film, “Ivo“, in the Encounters section back in 2024, with “Home Stories“.
Premiering in the 76th competition, the film is a coming of age story that also deals with an East German family and the eternal struggle we all have to face about our identity and the constant contrast between who we are and how we presents ourselves to others, to the outside world.
Father and daughter
“Home Stories” sees Frida Hornemann in the film’s lead role, playing Lea, a sixteen-year-old girl who is selected for a talent show, an experience that forces her to present herself to the world, and to present her family as well.
Trobisch doesn’t only focus on the difficult path of Lea, looking to define who she is but she also finds the space and time to look into her father, Matze (Max Riemelt)’s life, his relationship with Lea’s mother, whom he’s separated from (and that is pregnant with another man) so that the audience can understand more about the dynamics Lea is being raised in.
“Home Stories” is also a film about father and daughter and how they navigate life while transitioning from invisibility to visibility because of their exposition to the outside world through the reality Tv show.
An East German man
While Frida Hornemann tells us about her experience being directed by Eva Trobisch and the very first scenes they had to shoot (Lea’s TV performance was shot on Frida’s first day of shooting ever), Max Riemelt reveals how he was the perfect fit to play the East German man as Eva Trobisch didn’t want his character to be stereotypical.
As a man and actor who was born in East Germany, Max Riemelt was the perfect fit to play Matze, Lea’s father and to overcome any risk of representing a unidimensional character.
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