Haust (2010)

The experimental feature film Haust follows the conflicted lives and relationships of three former art students in east Germany. Caught up in ambivalent desires, ambitions, and harsh economic realities, the film's protagonists live together in a fragile balance that is suddenly disrupted when an unemployed friend joins their small circle. In a series of loosely connected sequences, the film tracks the group's everyday rituals, shifting intimacies, and anxieties about the direction of their lives. Haust is an unsparing portrait of the struggle for identity, community, and power.