WIESENWOOD (working title)

As the first female mayor of Wiesenwalde, Susanne Pauli does everything she can to revive the gradually dying village in the sticks of former East Germany. The community is beside itself with excitement when an American film crew comes to produce a new Hollywood series about German history. However, strange events start occurring, with fiction and reality, history and the present, lies and legends all becoming inextricably linked and the villagers having to make a decision about whether to continue living inside or outside of Wiesenwalde.

WIESENWOOD is Kiefer’s debut feature as well as his graduation film.