28.04. ‐ 03.05.2026
Was an Empfindsamkeit bleibt

Sometimes, I Imagine Them All at a Party

Daniela Magnani Hüller

An act that will always stay inconceivable. Fourteen years after an attempted femicide, Daniela Magnani Hüller digs up the questions that never stopped tormenting her. As a survivor, she speaks to former teachers and schoolmates, commissars and doctors, who accompanied her before and after the deed. Being impressively collected, she reconstructs the procedures and failures. How could the people arround her let the adolescent offender get away with it? In what way was the attempted murder prosecuted legally and what does it mean for the present day? 

In between, associative photo collages and voice-over texts appear: images of sensibility that bring up memories and open up room for the possibility of a life without fear. The traces of trauma are palpable - but the film doesn't turn them over. That way it becomes a visual journey to herself: her face stays far from the camera for a long time, disallowing the victim narrative and opting for one that lays open the circumstances of the deed. Magnani Hüller doesn't want to be pitied, but demands precision. She insists on the question: who bears responsibility?

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Direction Daniela Magnani Hüller
Country Germany
Duration 91 min
Language German, Portuguese
Language Version original version
Genre Documentary
Production Birgit Schulz
Production company Bildersturm Filmproduktion
Distribution RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih
Director of Photography Noah Böhm
Script Daniela Magnani Hüller
Montage Melanie Jilg
Sound Design Andrew Mottl


Berlinale 2026: Special Mention Documentary Award

About the director

Daniela Magnani Hüller studied directing in documentary film at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF). She has written, directed, and edited several short films. In 2023, she received the DOK.Talent Award at the international documentary film festival DOK.fest Munich. Her feature-length debut Sometimes, I Imagine Them All at a Party is an autobiographical documentary.



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Was an Empfindsamkeit bleibt
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Was an Empfindsamkeit bleibt