New Talent
Feature Film

FRIEDA

Southern Germany, 1984. Frieda, a dreamy nine-year-old, discovers that her parents are hiding a dark secret: a sister she was never allowed to meet.
Amidst the tensions of the Cold War, she uses the power of imagination to fight the silence of the adults.
A film about truth, trauma, and the lost innocence of a generation — told through the eyes of a child in a time that eerily mirrors our own

Data

Category: Feature Film, New Talent
Financing: Minority coproduction
Format: Digit., 90 Min
Funding ÖFI+: 406.200 €
Share of total production costs: 15 %
Co-production: kurhaus production Film & Medien GmbH (DE, 80%)
International funding: DFFF, MFG-BadenWürttemberg, NRW
Funding program: ÖFI+
Status: in production
Film location: Germany
Shooting time: August - September 2025
Days of shooting: 30
Completion: Summer 2026
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filminstitut

Credits

Production

Wega-Filmproduktionsgesellschaft m.b.H., Wega-Filmproduktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.

Producer

Christoph Holthof, Daniel Reich

Producer Austria

Veit Heiduschka, Julia Heiduschka, Christian Bachmann

Director

Felix Hassenfratz

Script

Felix Hassenfratz

DOP

Michael Kotschi

Editor

Nicki Mossböck

Sound engineer

Sergey Martynyuk

Costume design

Caterina Czepek

Set design

Christian Strang

Green Film Consultant

Marion Rossmann

Cast

Naila Schuberth (Frieda), Julia Jentsch (Justine), Rafael Stachowiak (Richard)

maske

Verena Morocutti, Judith Kröhrer

Production manager

Marija Burtscher

Television investment

SWR/WDR/SR