Never Look Away

2x Oscar nominee: Best Foreign Language Film, and Cinematography!
Venice Film Fest: Best Film in Competition award winner!

Young artist Kurt Barnert (Tom Schilling) has fled to West-Germany, but he continues to be tormented by the experiences he made in his childhood and youth in the Nazi years and during the GDR-regime. When he meets the student Ellie (Paula Beer), he is convinced that he has met the love of his life and begins to create paintings that mirror not only his own fate, but also the traumas of an entire generation.

German and Russian with English subtitles.

4/4 Stars! “This is one of the most mesmerizing, compulsively watchable films in theaters right now” (The Washington Post)

“a marvel. Epic yet intimate…quite moving…the film more than earns its commanding title: You will not want to look away.” (The Atlantic)