Afire

Prolific German auteur Christian Petzold braids desire, artistic insecurity and the looming threat of climate change in his smouldering comedy of manners set over the course of a hot summer holiday on a Baltic coastline beset with forest fires.

“The uncompromising work of a master not only on conceptual and stylistic levels but also in terms of his emotional politics.” ~Savina Petkova, The Playlist

“It’s the film’s great, disorienting structural risks, its humoring of human untidiness and confusion, that make it so subtly thrilling and moving.” ~Guy Lodge, Variety