Feature-length fiction film currently being written.

“It is said of a pregnant woman that she dreams of her own death”, Adrienne Rich.

SYNOPSIS

Berlin, in the near future. Hedda, a young zoologist specializing in bats bioacoustics, lives alone under the growing pressure of a pro-natalist regime. On her 35th birthday, she is summoned by the government’s Repopulation 2050 program to explain why she is not yet a mother. Hedda is forced to participate in a medical and psychological program that will compel her to confront her relationship with motherhood and the fragile bond that ties her to her own mother.

France, 1786. Berthe, a young aristocrat, lives in seclusion in a castle. She is subjected to animal magnetism treatments by two doctors tasked with curing her infertility and ensuring the continuation of her lineage. When Madeleine, a pregnant Black woman sent by her husband Louis from the colony of Saint-Domingue, is brought to live with Berthe, the fates of both women become forever intertwined.

What secret bond unites Hedda and Berthe, who seem to hear one another across time?

PRODUCTION

Eve Robin / New Sight (France)

María Zamora / Elastica (Spain)

SUPPORTS 

Locarno Residency 2025 (Switzerland)

RUEDA Residency – Academy of Cinema 2025-2026 (Spain)

Nipkow – Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg – Berlin AiR 2025 (Germany)

Ikusmira Berriak 2026 – San Sebastian Film Festival (Spain)

ECAM Forum 2026 (Spain)