SIN & ILLY STILL ALIVE

The drug-addict Sin tries once again to get clean from heroin and wants to escape from the cold, gray city of Frankfurt to a Greek island. She gets the money for the flights by selling blank prescriptions which she stole from her father’s doctor’s office. Sin breaks up with her boyfriend Leon and tries to convince her friend, the young prostitute Illy, to go with her. However, the two girls don’t get very far. Looking for Illy’s passport, they get stranded at a permanent campsite near the Frankfurt airport. All of the miseries of addiction and hopelessness are revealed in Illy’s mother’s caravan.

The film shows a realistic, unsparing look at the endless cycle of drugs, alcohol and drug-related crime. Sin tries to escape this vicious cycle but can only manage it by consistently burning all bridges behind herself.

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MARIA HENGGE was born in 1970 in Chicago and grew up in Munich. She finished studies in Acting in 1998 at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and was a member of the ensemble at the Burgtheater until 2005. She also studied Dramaturgy at the Film University Babelsberg. Her first short film THE LAST BUS (2008) screened at over 30 international film festivals. SIN & ILLY STILL ALIVE is her feature debut.

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