GRIMMS ALBTRAUM
GRIMM'S NIGHTMARE
Sophie Lösch, Andrea Erja / Germany / 2024 / 24 min / Colour
Italian premiere
In the forest, the wolf is the wolf; the sheep is the sheep. Hunters and prey. We are hunted—we hunt.” The voice of Little Red Riding Hood, seen walking through the forest, narrates, comments on, and brings new relevance to the famous fable. “The wolf is back,” her mother tells her. But the predator hasn’t only returned in the story—it has come back for real, repopulating the mountains and fields of Europe, stirring a passionate, sometimes violent, debate. The short film juxtaposes the instinctive fear of the “big bad” wolf with the fascination it holds for humans. It contrasts the imagined tale with a real-world political argument. From the microphones of the German parliament, politicians warn that children could become potential prey, “eaten in one bite,” as the story goes. But what if it were the fable itself—stripped of political frenzy—that offered us a lens through which to understand reality?
Sophie Lösch
She studied Ethnology and Art History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Since 2022, she has attended the l'Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film in the Bavarian capital. She has worked for DOK.fest Munich and for Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien in Berlin.
Andrea Erja
He studied Visual Anthropology at the University of Vienna and collaborated with Vienna’s Ethnocineca and Munich’s DOK.fest. Since 2022, he has been studying Documentary Directing and Television Journalism at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film in Munich.
