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Cast & Crew
- Director
- Producer
- Screenwriter
- Director of photography
- Main CastNina Hoss (Lisa), Lars Eidinger (Sven), Marthe Keller (Kathy), Jens Albinus (Martin), Thomas Ostermeier (David)
- Editor (Cut)
- Sound
- Original Score
- Production Design
- Costume Design
- Makeup
Director's comment
MY LITTLE SISTER has a special meaning for us. This film brings together three elements that are central to our lives. First, the city of Berlin to which we've had a strong attachment for over fifteen years. Second, the theatre, as we are both actresses. And above all, a unique friendship that goes back to our childhood. Stéphanie and Véronique were first and foremost two teenagers who shared the same love of theatre and decided to make a career out of it. Together we created a multitude of shows and together we started making films.To write MY LITTLE SISTER, we drew inspiration from our own atypical relationship, wherein we sometimes feel more alive when we are creating than in everyday life, like the twins in our movie, always hooked up to their shared imaginary world when they are together. We made them part of a theatre family because we are fascinated by the passion that drives those known in Germany as "Theatermenschen". In this community, an actor who doesn't perform doesn't exist. He is erased from memory. Whilst on stage he glows, borne by the presence of the audience. Through our characters' love of the theatre, our movie recounts in its own way the necessity of dreams as a way of escaping reality.
MY LITTLE SISTER is also the story of Lisa's inner journey back to her creativity through the illness of her brother, her alter ego. By reconnecting with writing to beat back the shadows, she brings herself out of the darkness. Through the unbreakable bonds that link these two beings, our film celebrates the fragility and power of life, the strength of transmission, and relates that the end of one life can also be the start of another.
Biography
Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond work together as a “twin-engine“. Both trained as actresses, they have performed in numerous theatre productions and have also appeared as a stage duo. Their debut feature THE LITTLE BEDROOM (2010) premiered in competition at the Locarno Film Festival. It won several awards, including Best Fiction Film & Best Screenplay at the Swiss Film Award, and was the Swiss submission for the US Academy Awards. In 2014, Chuat and Reymond wrote and directed the series OPEN BOOK, broadcast on Swiss and French television. In 2018, their documentary feature LADIES premiered at Visions du Réel International Film Festival and was a Swiss box-office hit.MY LITTLE SISTER is their second fiction film. Website: www.chuat-reymond.com
FILMOGRAPHY:
2020 MY LITTLE SISTER
2018 LADIES, doc.
2014 OPEN BOOK, tv series
2010 THE LITTLE BEDROOM
Cast & Crew
Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique ReymondRuth Waldburger
Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond
Filip Zumbrunn
Nina Hoss (Lisa), Lars Eidinger (Sven), Marthe Keller (Kathy), Jens Albinus (Martin), Thomas Ostermeier (David)
Myriam Rachmuth
David Hilgers, Patrick Storck
Christian Garcia
Marie-Claude Lang
Anna Van Brée
Marc Hollenstein