Program

Lonig & Havendel

Storyline

Trúc Lâm from Vietnam is doing an apprenticeship in the Ore Mountains. Whilst visiting a mine, she emerges on the other side of the mountain and finds herself in a parallel world.

About the film/the director

Claudia Tuyết Scheffel was born in Chemnitz to a Vietnamese former contract worker and an East German father, and grew up in Annaberg-Buchholz. She studied film at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg and completed her degree with the feature film “Lonig & Havendel”. In 2021, she published her first novel, “Scherben im Plateau”. She is currently writing the screenplay for her second feature film, “Knut, Bruno, Panda”, and preparing for her residency at the Goethe-Institut in Hanoi.

FILMOGRAPHY:

2025 - SB-Kassen Lover, music video for the band „Blond“
2023 - Erinnern aus post-migrantischer Perspektive, 7 Min., Documentary
2021 - Die Tragödie der Königin Hortense, 17 Min.
2021 - Tan chảy thành nước / Becoming Water/ Wasser werden, 21 Min. (derzeitig in der ARD-Mediathek)
2020 - Amputierte Arschbacken / Amputated Asscheecks, 29 Min.