The Goat’s Intensity

A young, recreational filmmaker takes his home camera to rural Thuringia to capture on narrow-gauge film an amateur film group as they shoot their most recent village murder mystery. Amid sets populated by a stoic land surveyor, a trackman for the East German railroad and a crowd of singing children, they shoot action scenes and animal shots. After the finished film premieres in the village cinema, there is an awards ceremony. The first prize – the “Golden Earnest” – goes to the lead actress, a goat. (Berlinale)