Special Screening

Special Screening

Thu, 20th of February 2025 – 4 p.m. Hackesche Höfe Kino

Film: 

ALL WE EVER WANTED

Guests: Popo Fan, Frédéric Jaeger, Dana Linssen

ALL WE EVER WANTED
D: Frédéric Jaeger, C: Charity Collin, Mehmet Sözer, Michael Ifeandu, DOP: Maximilian Andereya, GER 2024, 80 Min., German Original with English Subtitles

A vacation that could turn into an adventure if they dared: Desirée has taken her lover Elias and her best friend Sal to the Canary Islands, but then her mother turns off the money tap and the three of them are kicked out of their vacation home. More or less on their own and with only pocket money, they have to wait out the situation in the barren desert landscape of Fuerteventura – affording them an unexpected opportunity to renegotiate relationships and recalibrate their desires. Frédéric Jaeger’s debut feature confronts vacation utopias and queer dreams with everyday overload and the power of habit.

Frédéric Jaeger (*1984) studied Film and Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and Art and Media in Prof. Thomas Arslan’s Narrative Film class at the Berlin University of the Arts. During his studies, he made five short films and one feature-length film. His short films were shown at festivals such as Go Short, Max Ophüls Preis, Underdox, and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, as well as in Dresden, Hof, Oslo, Paris, Frankfurt, Bucharest, Moscow, Weiterstadt, Landshut, and São Paulo.
His first feature-length film, ALL WE EVER WANTED, was his graduation project at the University of the Arts. Before becoming a filmmaker, Jaeger worked as a film critic for twenty years and as a festival programmer for ten. He was Artistic Director of Berlin Critics’ Week (2015–2020) and Head of Program at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (2019–2023). He has written for outlets such as Spiegel Online, Der Freitag, taz, Berliner Zeitung, Die Presse, Kolik.Film, and Film Comment, and was editor-in-chief of critic.de (2004–2023).