Future Frames: Generation NEXT of European Cinema / Skin on Skin / Germany 2025
Brutal yet perfectly impersonal, almost sterile. That is the slaughterhouse where the lives of two men – security guard Jakob and employee Boris – come together. In this place where animals are turned into meat, a different kind of evil is growing, the kind that plays out between people. Exploitation, the abuse of foreign labor, unpaid wages. But even in such an inhospitable environment, there is a place for tenderness and love. The German social drama Skin on Skin is as raw as the meat that comes off the slaughterhouse’s assembly line.
Anna Kořínek
30 min / Color, DCP
Director Simon Schneckenburger
/ Screenplay Simon Schneckenburger, Marie Wagner
/ Dir. of Photography Nico Schrenk
/ Music Marc Grünhäuser, Christoph Erling
/ Sound Julian Berg
/ Editor Lukas Wengorz
/ Art Director Bartholomäus M. Kleppek
/ Producer Leon Döhner, Marc Colditz, Gerd Schermann
/ Production Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
/ Coproduction SWR, Arte, 3sat
/ Cast Jonas Smulders, Jurij Drevenšek, Christian A. Koch
Simon Schneckenburger. Selected filmography: Am Tag die Sterne (2017, kr.), Im Rauschen (2019, short), Borzaya (2021, short), Everybody Leaves in the End (2023, short), Skin on Skin (2025, short).
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