The Dreamed Path
Germany / 2016 / 86'
Plot
This portrait of disillusionment and the end of love is part of Schanelec's recent filmography. The film had a significant run at festivals; it premiered in the official competition at the Locarno Film Festival, where it was received with critical acclaim—considered one of Schanelec's most refined and radical works—and has since been hailed as a key piece in her filmography, a prelude to I Was at Home, But (Silver Bear for Best Director in Berlin in 2019).
The Dreamed Path tells the story of two couples over 30 years, through flashbacks. In 1984, the young couple Theres and Kenneth fall in love in Greece, but their relationship is abruptly interrupted when he has to return to his country after a family accident. Thirty years later, in Berlin, the story focuses on an actress, Ariane, who leaves her husband, David. Kenneth, now homeless, crosses paths with David without him knowing.
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Screenings
| 29/11/2025 | 17:00h | LA CASA ENCENDIDA | 4€ |
Director
Angela Schanelec
Angela Schanelec (Aalen, Germany, 1962) began her career as a theater actress with the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg and the Schaubühne in Berlin. She then studied directing at the German Film and Television Academy, where she took classes from filmmaker Harun Farocki and was in the same class as Christian Petzold and Thomas Arslan, with whom she formed what is known as the Berlin School. Her work as a filmmaker began in the mid-1990s, creating a unique and essential style that led critics to compare her to auteurs such as Robert Bresson, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Chantal Akerman.
Angela Schanelec's films have been selected for major festivals such as Cannes, where she competed in the Official Selection – Un Certain Regard with Marseille (2004) and Plätze in Städten (1998), and Locarno, where she participated in the Official Selection with Der traumhafte Weg (2016). Schanelec's cinematic consecration came with I Was at Home, but..., winning the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlinale, the Silver Astor for Best Director at Mar del Plata, and the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award for Best Film at San Sebastián. A thrilling work that speaks to us of grief, motherhood, and lack of communication.
Music, her latest feature film, is a fascinating contemporary interpretation of the tragedy of Oedipus, which won her the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the last Berlinale and the awards for Best Director and Best Cinematography at the 68th edition of the Valladolid International Film Week.
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