Wetlands
– Helen is a nonconformist teenage girl who maintains a conflictual relationship with her parents. Han..
Helen is a nonconformist teenage girl who maintains a conflictual relationship with her parents. Hanging out most of her time with her friend Corinna, with whom she breaks one social taboo after another, she uses sex as a way to rebel and break the conventional bourgeois ethic. After an intimate shaving accident, Helen ends up in the hospital where it doesn’t take long before she makes waves. But there she finds Robin, a male nurse who will sweep her off her feet...
22 Aug 2013
German
David Wnendt
Claus Falkenberg (screenplay), David Wnendt (screenplay), Sabine Pochhammer, Charlotte Roche (novel)
Carla Juri, Christoph Letkowski, Marlen Kruse, Meret Becker
The eccentric 18 year-old Helen narrates the story of her life, including stories about her preferred sexual practices that involve vegetables, her attitude towards hygiene, drugs, her best friend Corinna and her challenging childhood. The frame story takes place in a hospital where she is treated because of an anal fissure. During her stay she plans to reunite her divorced parents and falls in love with the male nurse Robin.
3 wins & 7 nominations.
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