Sirens Call

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY

Miri Ian Gossing and Lina Sieckmann

release Year

2025

Starring

Gina Rønning
Moth Rønning-Bötel

A nomadic siren journeys through a scattered Earth, navigating biography, identity and belonging while challenging tensions between mythology and postmodern reality in a genre-defying hybrid of science fiction and documentary.

in co-production with Schalten und Walten, Elbe Stevens Films (NL) and with ZDF / Das kleine Fernsehspiel.

With the support of the Wim Wenders Grant

German distribution missingFILMs |World sales Verità Films

WORLD PREMIERE in Berlinale Forum 2025

AWARDS

WINNER of Wim Wenders Grant 2017
nominated for Teddy Award 2025

Written and directed by Miri Ian Gossing & Lina Sieckmann
DOP Christian Kochmann
Sound Design Robert Kroos
⁠⁠Sound Mixing Henning Hein
⁠⁠Music Simon Waskow
⁠⁠Assistant Director Felix Bartke
⁠⁠Production Manager Nicole Wegner
⁠⁠Editing Christoph Bargfrede
Addtl. Cinematography Edward Pack Davee
⁠⁠Original Sound Benjamin Ramírez-Pérez, Nils Ramme
Associate Producers Chris Todd, Christine Todd, Michel Botouil, Nicolas Kremer
Line producer Mario von Grumbkow
Commissioning Editor Lucia Haslauer
Co-Producer Nadine Bemelmans, Floor Kooi, Elbe Stevens
Producers Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, Miri Ian Gossing, Claus Herzog-Reichel, Lina Sieckmann
The film yields aesthetic and narrative rug-pulls that are at once completely surprising and yet make perfect sense when their pieces fall into place, gently revealing shattering truths viewers might feel they’ve always known, deep in their bones. […] not a single moment of its two-hour runtime feels amiss.
Variety

Sirens Call reveals only a little of its very solid philosophical framework. Instead, it lets its characters embody it on screen, both with their bodies and with their words. There’s no doubt that this is the best thing a film about non-normative identities can do, since its task is not just to educate and show, but also to become a medium that fits its content.
Cineuropa