If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart Into Your Mouth and Smile

Wenn du Angst hast nimmst du dein Herz in den Mund und lächelst
  • Marie Luise Lehner
  • Austria
2025
87'
Screening schedule
  • Friday, 14. November 2025.
  • 18:00
  • CineStar Branimir

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Twelve-year-old Anna lives with her deaf mother in a modest but loving home. When she starts high school, she enters an entirely new world. Most of the students come from wealthy families, and Anna’s difficult financial situation becomes a source of shame. Resourceful as she is, Anna manages to hide her circumstances and soon finds an ally in Mara, a defiant feminist who also lives alone with her queer father. If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart Into Your Mouth and Smile is a film about class differences, deafness, intimacy, and the search for one’s identity, a journey from shame to pride.

SUBTITLES: EN, HR

Marie Luise Lehner
Marie Luise Lehner

Marie Luise Lehner (Vienna, 1995) is an Austrian filmmaker, writer, and punk musician. She studied screenwriting at the Film Academy Vienna, where she is currently completing a master’s degree in directing, and also studies contextual painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. She writes screenplays and prose and has published two novels. Her short films have been screened at numerous international film festivals, and her literary work has earned her multiple awards. Since 2012, she has caused a furore with her feminist punk band Schapka.

Film information

Director: Marie Luise Lehner

Screenplay: Marie Luise Lehner

Cast: Siena Popović, Mariya Menner, Jessica Paar, Alessandro Scheibner, Alperen Köse, Kathrin Resetarits, Daniel Sea, Markus Schramm, Charlotte Rohart, Emma Dittlbacher, Valentina Williams, Katerina Jaschke, Shalom Mulombe, Zeynep Salkök, Lia Lena Ludescher

Director of photography: Simone Hart

Editing: Jana Libnik, Joana Scrinzi, Alexandra Schneider

Producer: Katharina Posch, Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Markus Glaser, Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Production: NGF Geyrhalterfilm

Festivals and awards: Berlinale 2025 – Jury Award (Teddy Awards), CICAE Art Cinema Award

FILM INKLUZIV

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