Sound Design
The Matriarch
Die Matriarchin
Feature Film (100 min) | Vietnamese/German OV | 5.1 Surround Sound | 2026
Seventeen-year-old Kim lives with her emotionally distant mother, mute younger brother, and strangers hiding in a secret room in their apartment at the Baltic coast. Vietnamese migrants regularly pass through their home as her mother, a key figure in a criminal network, runs human trafficking operations. When her mother's associate Luc defects to start a rival operation, Kim seizes her chance to prove herself to her mother. She navigates her first romance while entering a clandestine family business. As her good intentions drag her into a dark and brutal underworld that contradicts her sensitive nature, Kim begins to question the true costs of earning respect by crossing her own boundaries.
Writer & Director | Alison Kuhn
Producer | Martin Lehwald, Philipp Goeser, Stephan Buske, Paula Klossner
DOP | Jan Mayntz
Production Designer | Lucia Eifler
Editor | Christian Zipfel
Music | Christian Dellacher
Sound Designer | Larissa Kischk
Re-Recording Mixer | Torben Seemann
Main Characters | Lissy-Marie Phuong Linh Nguyen, Tuyen Do
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