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Written and Directed by
Fynn Behrendt

After a positive pregnancy test, 17-year-old Alex wants to carry on as usual. But how is she supposed to explain it to her girlfriend?

Genre
Coming of Age
Status
Post Production

Lenth
24 min
Original Language
German

Written by
Fynn Behrendt, Lily Behrendt

Executive Producer
Philipp Machill

Directed By
Fynn Behrendt
Music by
Kolja Porschke

An autumn morning walk to school through gentrified Berlin. Her girlfriend Mia mustn’t find out what Alex (17) discovered this morning: she’s pregnant.
Alex vainly tries to reach the child’s father, but he doesn’t answer the phone. Now all she can do is distract herself. She cancels plans with Mia and spends the day selling weed to classmates.
But as rumors about her affair begin to circulate in Alex’s environment and a drug deal with the father of a classmate crosses her boundaries in an unpleasant way, her facade begins to crumble.
Mia, increasingly irritated by Alex’s evasive maneuvers, feels rejected and overlooked. During an evening spent together at a dance bar, the situation escalates. More rumors circulate, Alex overreacts — and pushes Mia away for good.
Left alone on an empty train platform, she loses herself in an ecstatic, imagined dance where memory, desire, and reality merge.

director's note

“Half-Truths” is in many ways a reflection of Lily’s and my youth in a bohemian district of Hamburg, Germany. My main character, Alex, isn’t quite sure who she is yet, and she lacks the self-confidence needed to deal with difficult situations and her own mistakes. Although she has her own moral standards and values, her fear of the consequences of her actions—and of having to ask herself uncomfortable questions about herself—is greater. So she chooses to repress her feelings and becomes entangled ever deeper in her web of half-truths.