Truth or Dare

Filmstill Truth or Dare

Truth or Dare

Truth or Dare
Maja Classen
German Competition Documentary Film
Documentary Film
Germany
2024
74 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
German
Audio Description
World premiere

The camera glides through a nocturnal, inanimate Berlin, documenting disembodied dance floors where the spotlights illuminate emptiness. Tales of longing and desire on the soundtrack. A brief visual reminiscence of lockdowns and retreats into bourgeois privacy, threatening a sex-positive culture that demands the consensual, open encounter of bodies. But people, curiosity and lust reconquer cinema. Exploring softness together, finding out where the bodies lead, allowing skin cells and nerve endings to get to know each other – and asking at every step where the boundaries are. This is the agenda of three couples and a group of sex-positive persons who meet here. “Truth or dare” is played, an age-old excuse to override taboos.
What Maja Classen explores with them, without trying to pin it down, is the question of how consensus makes a new sexuality possible. Even the protection from sexually transmitted diseases is part of the game, personal responsibility in the darkrooms, the images of femininity, masculinity and love dragged in from one’s socialisation that need to be defamiliarised again. Nothing we see transgresses boundaries. Nothing that happens happens without consensus. And yet none of it is taken for granted. “The joy of being there – and exactly there.”


Jan Künemund

Contains depictions of nudity, explicit sex scenes

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29.10.
#281
Regina Palast 1
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29.10.2024
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31.10.
#441
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31.10.2024
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02.11.
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02.11.2024
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03.11.
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03.11.2024
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Director
Maja Classen
Script
Maja Classen
Cinematographer
Alina Albrecht
Editor
Sabrina Rücker
Producer
Saralisa Volm
Sound
Koenraad Ecker, Marina Funck, Mad Kate, Claudia Mattai del Moro, Nele Schinz, Pussy Ranz
Sound Design
Uwe Bossenz
Score
Vanessa Chartrand-Rodrigue, Angad Berar

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Nominated for: VER.DI Prize for Solidarity, Humanity and Fairness