Cold Call

>>> A film to watch in Block 4. Limit Situations

An artist with writer's block is sitting in an artist's residence in northern Germany. Outside, construction workers renovate a vacation home; inside, nothing happens until the landline phone rings. A supposed Microsoft employee wants access to her supposedly broken computer. Instead, she starts to talk – about heartbreak, emptiness and the failure to work. Without realizing it, she becomes a scambaiter. Film tells of an unexpectedly genuine, almost tender conversation between two strangers worlds apart and of how easily one becomes part of the structures one claims to critique.

The film is being presented as part of the project "Cinema as a Laboratory V," co-financed by the Polish-German Cooperation Foundation.