Once upon a time there was a girl named Helene. And because her father was king and her mother queen, she had to be a princess.
So nine-year-old Helene begins to tell her own story in her paper theater. After all, a princess can do anything. Really everything. A freedom that quickly turns out to be a prison, however, because the architecture of the kingdom is so all-encompassing and powerful that it no longer requires any prohibitions. The impossibility of leaving traces or even changing anything makes Helene increasingly passive. When the court physician then also wants to treat her "melancholy" with medication, Helene takes this as an opportunity to throw the crown into the castle pond and break out. What follows is a day like none before. Helene learns to ride a bike, injures herself and finds a friend in 8 1/2 year old Paul. He tends to her wounds and shows her his favorite spot high up on the rooftops. Here above the city, everything loses its previous meaning: houses, trains, princesses, kingdoms - all just made up!
But in the evening, the king stands in front of the door with Helene's crown and wants to pick her up. Helene and Paul look at each other. Their own place in the universe might actually be impossible. Or maybe not! They disappear a second time. This time, perhaps forever.
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
- 33rd Filmfest Dresden 2021
- Mo&Friese Award at the Children's Film Festival Mo&Friese 2016.
- 2nd place at the audience award in the category children's film, 38.
- Grenzland Film Days Selb
- Jury prize at the Cologne Design Award
- Nomination for the German Short Film Award in the category "Feature films with a running time of more than 7 to 30 minutes".
- Film award "Goldmarie" at the school cinema project of the 56th elementary school Dresden 2014
- 2nd place at the Nichts wie weg mit dem deutschen Qualitätskino! Competition of the studiobühneköln 2014
- Special mention for the script, German Children's Media Festival GOLDENER SPATZ
- Malaysia-German-Society Screening 2016
- Platzhirsch Festival Duisburg 2016
- Bayreuth Film Festival Contrast 2016
- ShortOrama short film series in the West End 2015
- Oderkurz Film Spectacle 2015
- German Short Film Award Brazil 2015
- Festival International du Film Nancy 2015
- Seoul International Youth Film Festival 2015
- Grenzland Film Festival 2015
- SchulKinoWochen Hesse 2015
- SKENA UP Festival 2014
- Unlimited Short Film Festival 2014
- 13th International Student Film and Video Festival 2014
- Oldenburg International Film Festival 2014
- Cologne Cinema Nights 2014
- 22nd German Children's Media Festival 2014
- Filmfest Dresden 2014
