MICHELE BRAGA
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Wood And Water

by Jonas Bak
Sound Design

A film by Jonas Bak
Edited by Jonas Bak
Producer: Charlotte Lelong
Co-Producer: Ulla Lehmann, Andrea Roggon
CHARLOTTE LELONG
Cinematography by Alex Grigoras
Sound: Marian Mentrup (Suoervising Sound Designer & Re-recording Mixer), Michele Braga (Sound Designer & Dialogue editor), Michal Krajczok (Sound Designer)
Music: “New Space Music” written and performed by BRIAN ENO
Courtesy of All Saints Records, © Universal Music Publishing Ltd on behalf of Opal Music
Production: Trance Films

Premiered at Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival 2021.
Anke retires from her job at the church in a small town in the Black Forest. She looks forward to reuniting with her children over the summer holidays by the Baltic Sea, at a place where they used to live as a young family, and where she lived her best years. At the last minute, her son Max is unable to join them because of the pro-democracy protests that are bringing Hong Kong, where he lives, to a standstill. She has been out of touch with him for many years and after an otherwise uneventful summer and facing the void of retirement, she decides to visit him. A mother wants to check in on her children every now and then, but Hong Kong is also her adventure. She takes up residence in his flat while Max is away on a business trip and cautiously begins to navigate this mysterious new world. Through conversations with strangers, she gradually settles in. A young woman who is sad to leave Hong Kong, Max’s doorman, a psychiatrist, a fortune teller and a social activist. These encounters and her experience of the city help her to break down the inner walls she constructed years ago and make way for a new chapter in her life.

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