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Mar 5, 2021 · Mia Maariel Meyer 's second feature The Seed [+. ], screening in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino strand of this year's Berlinale, teaches the viewers a hard lesson about today's labour exploitation and societal collapse.
- Davide Abbatescianni
The Seed: Directed by Mia Maariel Meyer. With Hanno Koffler, Dora Zygouri, Anna Blomeier, Andreas Döhler. Rainer toils by the sweat of his brow on a building site. His first job as site manager is his much-needed big break.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Mia Maariel Meyer
- 2022-04-28
Mar 3, 2021 · It might seem almost instinctive to position Mia Maariel Meyer’s The Seed on the same spectrum as filmmakers concerned with the human toll of worker exploitation, Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You (2019) an immediate reference point here in how it too focuses on the intersection of precarious labor practices with family trauma.
by Mia Maariel Meyer. synopsis. Rainer toils by the sweat of his brow on a building site. His first job as site manager is his much-needed big break. Rising rents in the city have already forced him, his pregnant wife and 13-year-old daughter Doreen to move into a little house in the outskirts which needs renovating.
- Germany
- Die Saat
- The Seed
- 2021
THE SEED (Berlinale 2021) – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. What filmmaker Mia Maariel Meyer brings to life in The Seed is not as much the story of the exploited worker himself, in this case an aspiring building site manager called Rainer (Hanno Koffler), but that of his young 13-year-old daughter Doreen, played in a dazzling performance ...
Returning to Germany, she began working in documentary and made news features. In 2012, she won a Grimme Online Award for her work as editor of the "140 Sekunden" documentary programme. In 2014, she made the no-budget film "Up the Stairs".
Mia Maariel Meyer. Director: The Seed. Mia Maariel Meyer was born on 14 December 1981 in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany. Mia Maariel is a director and writer, known for The Seed (2021), Treppe Aufwärts (2015) and Manou (2013). Mia Maariel is married to Hanno Koffler.
