Kleine Geburt

.mika falke

writer / director · 2025 · 9'

writer / director · 2026 · 13'

short film · fiction · 1.66:1 · color · german · english subtitles

synopsis

twelve weeks into her pregnancy, anna wakes in the night to find that she is losing her child. with only her midwife’s voice on the phone, she goes through the physical and emotional experience of a miscarriage at home.

alone, anna gives birth to the tiny life that stopped growing too soon. as she holds her child in her hands, loss becomes, for a moment, an encounter, a chance to see, hold and welcome the life she had been carrying.

During a car journey, a young couple must decide how to deal with the fact that another person has entered their lives.

Lulu and Theo set off, leave something behind, arrive somewhere else and nothing is quite the same anymore. Between departure and arrival lies the question of how much truth love can withstand and whether loving someone sometimes means letting them go.

During a car journey, a young couple must decide how to deal with the fact that another person has entered their lives.