Cherry Cupcakes

Mateja Rokavec (SI), 2019, 19’17’’

with: EVA COLLÉ
director: PIA HELLENTHAL
script: PIA HELLENTHAL, GIORGIA MALATRASI
director of photography: JANIS MAZUCH
editor YANA HÖHNERBACH
dramaturg LISA REISCH
sound design MARCUS ZILZ
production: CORSO FILM PRODUCTION
in co-production with: ZDF /DAS KLEINE FERNSEHSPIEL
in cooperation with: VICE STUDIOS
in collaboration with: GIORGIA MALATRASI, PIA HELLENTHAL

​EVA COLLÉ – 25, drifter, Berliner, poet,  pet-owner, sex worker, virgo, recovering addict, housewife, feminist, model – declared privacy an outdated concept at the age of 14. 

This is the tale of a young woman growing up in the age of the internet, turning the search for oneself into a public spectacle, challenging you on what a woman should be. Through her fragmented personalities you see the emergence of a generation, in which the concept of a fixed identity has grown old.

A portrait of modern existence.

Lilliana is a sweet lady, who combats loneliness in her own special way. She is the owner, proprietor and housekeeper of a smaller hotel, where she is the only employee. She steals something from each guest - small, personal artefacts without a big price tag - which she trades in for homemade cherry cupcake. Konstantine enters the hotel, a once-successful but now long-forgotten playwright. During his stay, Liliana and Konstantine develop a special connection, when Konstantine discovers Liliana's secret.