Miroirs No. 3 - Christian Petzold

On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura, a piano student from Berlin, miraculously survives a car crash. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident and now cares for Laura with motherly devotion. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura's presence, the four of them slowly build up some family-like routine and spend some days of happiness together. But soon they can no longer ignore their past, and Laura has to come to terms with her own life.

Christian Petzold was born in Hilden in 1960. He studied film at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin from 1988 to 1994. His 2000 film The State I Am In won Gold at the German Film Awards. He received the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlinale for Barbara in 2012 and also won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the Berlinale for Afire in 2023.