Katrin Gebbe

Faith, Love, Hope – the names of the three chapters of Katrin Gebbe’s raw debut feature also capture the innocence of the film’s main protagonist. The young and guileless Tore has substituted an absence of family with a punk Christian sect known as the Jesus Freaks. Chance brings him to the home of the seemingly kindhearted Benno, but the boy’s vulnerability and insecurity soon attract the man’s sadistic tendencies. This intimate cinematic tragedy, which caused a… (plus)