Low Profile

18-year-old, freshly graduated Armin is slowly being suffocated by his mother’s well-meaning, his father’s expectations, the lethal boredom of suburban life. He starts randomly making anonymous claims of responsibility for accidents he witnesses, crimes he reads about. It starts as a game and quickly becomes an obsession. Soon, pretending to be guilty just isn’t enough…

„Low Profile” is not only an portrait of life in the suburban wastelands of Germany and a disturbing case study of a juvenile identity crisis: “It’s about a pattern, that we all are familiar with: the desire for a free disposition of our selves” – Christoph Hochhäusler studied directing at Munich Film and Television School (HFF). Le Monde about his debut feature „This very Moment” (Milchwald), shown at last year’s Berlinale: “Without doubt the best German film of the festival.”