Actress (f/d) as "mother" for a student short film
Due to the illness of an actress, we are now looking for another role :):
Mira, in her early twenties, has been suffering from migraines and inexplicable exhaustion for weeks. When she collapses during a walk with her friend Eva, the results of an MRI lead to the diagnosis: a glioblastoma, malignant, incurable, only a few months to live.
Between shock, fear and a desperate desire to remain normal, Mira and Eva try to carry on with their everyday lives. While Mira is increasingly confronted with physical deterioration, surgery, chemotherapy and the inevitable end, Eva is caught between love, excessive demands and the fear of losing the person who means her life.
The relationship begins to falter. Mira doubts whether she can burden Eva with dying. Eva clings to the promise not to leave, even though she senses that nothing will remain as it was.
With every further loss, hair, strength, future, studies, plans, time becomes more valuable than any therapy. The film accompanies the two through moments of light, closeness and unstoppable decay until they realize: You can't stop death, but you can decide how to live while it's not here yet.
Contact: Leonie
Sabine is in her mid-40s to early 50s, pragmatic, controlled and emotionally difficult to access. She faces the world with a sober, almost matter-of-fact attitude, behind which she consistently hides her own fears. She does not openly admit her feelings, neither her own nor those of others. Closeness makes her insecure, she tries to relativize emotional outbursts or cover them up with optimism.
In her dealings with Mira, Sabine often seems cold, not due to a lack of love, but because she is unable to bear pain. Instead of offering comfort, she takes refuge in rationality, distraction or well-meaning but inappropriate suggestions. She talks about plans for the future, strength and perseverance, while Mira actually wants to be seen and held. Sabine believes that functioning is synonymous with survival.
Her distance becomes particularly clear in moments when Mira is looking for emotional support. Sabine avoids these situations, trivializes Mira's fear or shifts the focus to practical matters. This creates a palpable coldness that hurts Mira, even though Sabine herself is convinced that she is doing "the right thing".
Sabine is emblematic of a generation and a self-image in which vulnerability is seen as weakness. Her role contrasts with the deep, open emotionality between Mira and Eva, reinforcing the central theme of the film: how differently people deal with loss, fear and love and how much a lack of emotional closeness can hurt.