PLACES IN THE SUN
Film - New German Cinema

PLACES IN THE SUN

Directed by Aaron Arens

Info

Director: Aaron Arens
Section: New German Cinema
Country: Germany, Spain
Year: 2024
PT: SONNENPLÄTZE
OT: SONNENPLÄTZE
Language: German, English, Spanish
Version: Original version with English subtitles
Cast: Julia Windischbauer, Juliane Köhler, Niels Bormann, Jeremias Meyer, Jeremy Mockridge
12+

Logline

A world premiere: A tumultuous comedy about old conflicts and fresh opportunities.

Samuela is in despair at not having had a breakthrough as an author. When her boyfriend dumps her, she and her brother take a secret trip to their family’s vacation home on Lanzarote so that she can work on her novel. But instead of the peace and quiet she’d hoped for, she finds her father there, who has been living in the house since his divorce. Mayhem ensues when Samuela’s mother also shows up.

Show calendar
Photocredits: Filmwelt Verleihagentur/Maverick Film

Calendar

  • (only P&I)
    HFF Kino 1
  • After the film: Q&A with Aaron Arens and team

    Sendlinger Tor
  • After the film: Q&A with Aaron Arens and team

    HFF Audimax
  • After the film: Q&A with Aaron Arens and team

    City 1

Meet the director

PLACES IN THE SUN

Aaron Arens

Aaron Arens was born in Zurich in 1988 and studied stage directing at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) until 2024. He has also been an actor since 2001 and an editor of films and series since 2009. His most recent short film, I GREW A STATUE (2019), premiered at the Max-Ophüls-Preis film festival and earned a German Camera Award.

Credits

Screenplay: Aaron Arens, Lukas Loose
Director of Photography: Tobias Blickle
Film Editor: Aaron Arens, Ana de Mier y Ortuño
Composer: Victor Moser, Fabian Gisler
Production Designer: Fion-Jasper Hoppmann
Costume Design: Miriam Waldenspuhl
Sound: Sophie Wasserburger
Sound design: Christof Ebhart
Animation: Patrick Wagner
Make-up artist: Sabeth Kelwing Jimenez
Casting director: Anne Hünseler
Producer: Tristan Bähre, Philipp Maron, Sebastian Fehring
Production Company: Maverick Film GmbH
Executive producer: Viviana Koch
Co-Producer: Jakob Claussen, Uli Putz
Co-Production Company: Claussen + Putz Filmproduktion GmbH, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München
Distributor: Filmwelt Verleihagentur GmbH
Editor: Natalie Lambsdorff, Monika Lobkowicz, Daniela Muck
TV channel: Arte, Bayerischer Rundfunk