Description

Gisberta 2009
23min | Short, Drama | 20 November 2009 (Germany)

Again and again Elisha finds himself confronted by Alex, Timo, Sascha, and Mika – all 14-year-olds living in the boys’ orphanage with him. Their worlds ought to be similar and yet they are completely different. While Elisha builds tiny obstacle courses for ants in the woods, the other boys spend their days watching porn, absorbed in their emerging sexual fantasies.

When the attractive 31-year-old Gisberta is newly employed at the orphanage, she quickly becomes the object of their desires and the boys try to approach her with clumsily aggressive adolescent behavior. Elisha, however, actually gets to know Gisberta.

Alex, who has his eyes everywhere, discovers the two laughing in the kitchen. His erupting jealousy drives the group to continuously humiliate Elisha in any way possible, but this just brings Elisha closer to Gisberta, and a tender friendship develops between them. But one day the sexual fantasies of the other boys take a turn to brutal reality.

Director: Lisa Violetta Gaß
Writer: Matthias Vom Schemm
Stars: Moritz Michels, Ferdinand Lehmann, Dagny Dewath
Country: Germany
Language: German
Release Date: 20 November 2009 (Germany)
Filming Locations: Berlin, Germany