The young actress Ela (24) lands her first leading role as “Lulu” in the new theater production of the important director Franz Kramer (42). Franz, in a predominantly male team, sells the play as feminist. But soon Ela and her female perspective on the role of Lulu are lost amid the men. “Just for fun,” Kramer yells, silencing Ela, just like her role. The other actors do not stand up for Ela – they only give voice to their sexist characters on stage and thus become accomplices to Franz’s behavior. The situation comes to a head when Franz goes one step further and sexually harasses Ela. Ela struggles to reconstruct Lulu as a self-confident character, but this only seems possible if she takes the same steps of self-empowerment in her real life.

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Directed by Marina Prados and Paula Knüpling, cmd+c