THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN

Young Ellie is an android, seemingly produced to replace a lost daughter to her father. Ellie breaks out of this highly problematic relationship and has somebody reprogram her. With almost achingly beautiful images Wollner explores her narrative's deep moral abysses, but also philosophical questions about the limits of humanity and memory. A confrontational and polarizing film, much in the spirit of fellow Austrian masters like Ulrich Seidl and Michael Haneke, but just like their films, it never gets gratuitous.