Islamabad(Monitoring Desk): “Arresting” seems an appropriate word to describe Hamburg writer-director Steffen Goldkamp’s feature film debut Rain Fell on the Nothing New (Regen fiel auf nichts Neues), starring Noah Sayenko in his first acting role. No pun intended!
After all, the German movie, which world premieres in the Proxima Competition lineup of the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Saturday, July 5, confronts us with questions about what detention and prison do to individuals, especially young ones.
The festival promises “surgically precise direction, carefully constructed atmosphere, and also the discreet empathy with which the filmmaker discovers the intimacy of his antihero hovering on the edge of society.” And it highlights: “With his softly nuanced performance, Noah Sayenko excels in the main role.”
