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Film Info

Germany 2020 | 81 min. Director: Valentin Riedl
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World Sales

NEW DOCS
Dasselstr. 75-77
50674 Köln Phone +49 221 16819743 http://www.newdocs.de

Production Company

CORSO Film
Antwerpener Str. 14
50672 Köln Phone +49 221 20533700 http://www.corsofilm.de

Project / Host

Therapie TV

Categories

Documentary

Lost in Face

Synopsis

Carlotta cannot recognize faces, not even her own. For her, human faces are no bastion of trust, but places of fear and confusion. She is one of the 1% of all people whose part of the brain responsible for facial recognition does not work properly. With his film LOST IN FACE, neuroscientist Valentin Riedl travels through Carlotta’s universe, full of anthropomorphic animals, lucid dreams and bumpy false paths. He peels back her charming, idiosyncratic solutions that she employs to be able to join the masses of human conformity, until she one day decides to build a ship and leave her fellow humans. Her never-ending search for answers leads her to art—and thus an avenue to her own face and back to humanity.


“As a neuroscientist and filmartist, Valentin merges abstract science with the artistic form of film to open a new world to the spectator” Wim Wenders

Cast & Crew

Festivals/awards

2020
Audience Award Documentary & Best Score for Documentary for Antimo Sorgente – FF Max Ophüls Preis
Best DoP Documentary for Doro Götz – IFF Dortmund | Cologne
Best Debut @ German Documentary Film Awards
Golden Owl Award — Bergen IFF Science Film Competition

CPH:DOX — section Science Films
35 DOK.fest Munich
Filmkunstmesse Leipzig

Director's comment

Roughly five years ago, I came across one of Carlotta’s pictures in a newspaper and it captivated me. As a cerebral researcher, I was blown away by the fact that someone who had never been able to recognize a face, was able to create such an expressive portrait. Over the course of human evolution, the human brain has developed a small area behind our ears that is specialized in processing human faces. For people with prosopagnosia, aka “face blindness,” this area does not work properly. When I first entered Carlotta’s enchanted apartment, I immediately recognized that she had a lot to tell. But it was not until some time after that I would never be able to fully comprehend Carlotta’s mode of perception given her outlined deficits in many aspects of her life. Despite the fact that we are all equipped with similar brains and sensory organs, everyone has their own unique way of looking at the world.

World Sales

NEW DOCS
Dasselstr. 75-77
50674 Köln Phone +49 221 16819743 http://www.newdocs.de

Production Company

CORSO Film
Antwerpener Str. 14
50672 Köln Phone +49 221 20533700 http://www.corsofilm.de

Cast & Crew

Valentin Riedl
 Erik Winker, Martin Roelly
 Frederic Schuld, Valentin Riedl
 Dorothea Götz
 Ivan Morales jr.
 Andreas Hildebrandt, Simon Bastian
 Simon Bastian (@ Zeigermann_AudioStudio)
 Antimo Sorgente

Categories

Documentary
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