70th edition. From 24 October to 1 November 2025.
70th edition.
24 Oct./1 Nov. 2025
2021 – 66th Edition
Meeting Point - Feature films

Wood and Water

Jonas Bak
Alemania/Francia/Hong Kong
 - 2021

Anke is disappointed. After her last day of work in a parish office in the Black Forest, she was looking forward to a summer holiday together with her children on the Baltic coast, a place where they lived as a young family and where Anke spent her best years. But her son Max, who lives in Hong Kong, cancels at short notice because the pro-democracy protests in the city have brought life there to a standstill. In the emptiness of her retirement, alone between four walls, Anke decides to fly to Hong Kong to see her son. While Max is away on a business trip, she takes up residence in his flat and cautiously begins to navigate this mysterious new world. 

Jonas Bak

Born in Konstanz, Germany in 1985, he now lives and works as a filmmaker in Freiburg. After studying film directing at the Edinburgh College of Art, he moved to London and then, in 2018, to Hong Kong where he worked as a freelance filmmaker and cinematographer. He has written and directed two short films, ‘Wanderdrachen’ (2016) and ‘One and Many’ (2017), both of which screened at international festivals such as Curta Cinema in Rio de Janeiro and Pacific Meridian. ‘Wood and Water’ is his debut feature film.

DIRECTOR
Jonas Bak
SCREENPLAY
Jonas Bak
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Alex Grigoras
EDITOR
Jonas Bak
SOUND
Chris Gayne, Albert Hung Kin Kong, Jérémie Vernerey, Isaac Bertulis, Marian Mentrup, Michele Braga, Michal Krajczok
MUSIC
Brian Eno
PRODUCTION
Charlotte Lelong, Ulla Lehmann, Andrea Roggon
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Trance Films
CAST
Anke Bak, Ricky Yeung, Alexandra Batten, Patrick Lo, Theresa Bak, Patrick Shum, Lena Ackermann, Susanne Johnssen
RUNNING TIME
79 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2021
COUNTRY
Alemania/Francia/Hong Kong
CONTACT

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