Immaculata

WRITer & DIRECTor

Kim Lêa Sakkal

Release year

2024

Starring

Jan Bluthardt
Devrim Lingnau
Deleila Piasko

Derya is pregnant, but she hasn’t had sex. As we gaze into her life, a housekeeper in the height of a dry summer, signs of the supernatural and the divine emerge, prompting us to question the true origin of her mysterious pregnancy.

supported with short film funding by Film- und Medienstiftung und FFA

2024 | GER | fiction | 2K | 1:85:1 | 5.1 | 23 min

PREMIERE IN Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, CANNES

AWARDS

40. Interfilm – Berlin International Short Film Festival – BEST GERMAN FILM 2ND PRIZE
20. Augenblick Filmfestival – STUDENT JURY AWARD –

Written & directed by Kim Lêa Sakkal
DOP Paul Faltz

Production Design Mayte Hellenthal, Hella Vohrmann

Editor Benedikt Strick

Music Caroline Kox, Antonio de Luca

Production Sound Mixer René Nicklaus

Supervising Sound Editor Henning Hein

Colorist Nadia Khairat Gomez
Make-up Rudeina Konstantini

Costumes Leah Bauthamy
Producers Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, Claus Herzog-Reichel, Kim Lêa Sakkal
2024

56. Quinzaine des Realisateurs – Directors’ Fortnight Cannes
32. Curtas Vila Do Conde – International Film Festival
16. International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala
Hamptons International Film Festival
69. Seminci – Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid
18. KFFK Köln
40. Interfilm – Berlin International Short Film Festival
34. Stockholm International Film Festival
25. Izmir International Short Film Festival
6. Castrovillari Film Festival
15. Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife
37. Festival Premiers Plans D’Angers

2025

18. Vilnius Short Film Festival
47. Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival