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SYNOPSIS

Eighteen year-old Helen Memel (Carla Juri) likes to skateboard, masturbate with vegetables and thinks that body hygiene is greatly overrated. Struggling with her parents divorce, she spends her time experimenting and breaking one social taboo after the other with her best friend, Corinna. When a shaving accident lands her in the hospital, she sees it as a way to reconcile her parents and forms an unlikely bond with her male nurse, Robin (Christoph Letkowski). Wetlands is an unapologetically vulgar coming-of-age tale about divorce, first love and anal fissures.

David Wnendt

David F. Wnendt, born in 1977 in Gelsenkirchen, grew up as the son of a diplomat in Islamabad, Miami, Brussels and the German town Meckenheim. He made his first forays into the world of theatre and film production working in a variety of jobs, such as lighting technician, editor and production assistant. He attended renowned Film and Television University Konrad Wolf in Potsdam-Babelsberg. While still a student on the university's directing programme, he won an award at the International Short Film Festival Interfilm Berlin in 2006 for his short film California Dreams. Wnendt‘s first medium-length feature film Small Lights starring Rosalie Thomass was broadcast on Arte in 2008. His powerful final degree film, Combat Girls, the drama, depicting the right-wing scene in eastern Germany, which he both wrote and directed, was met with great acclaim.

Filmography

2014       Feuchtgebiete / Wetlands

2011       Kriegerin / Combat Girls

2008       Kleine Lichter / Small Lights

Festivals

2014       Sundance, Locarno

Dump the kids and lock up Grandma, Wetlands is here to freak out the prudes and make “dirty” fun again.

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone