Dear Linda, Dear Hendrik

In "Dear Linda, Lieber Hendrik" two young filmmakers send each other letters and videos in an attempt to show each other their most fragile selves and to understand one another. The film shows their contrasting personalities and film styles, but also their common search to come to terms with their surroundings and fears.
Linda struggles with her new home in Munich, where they both study film. It has made her insecure. She no longer knows what a good picture is meant to look like. Through performative acts she tries to recover a sense of who she is. Hendrik feels "outside the world". He tries to find images for his inner self, documents his everyday life in his room and points the camera at his body.
Misunderstandings inevitably arise between the two, but despite it all they never stop believing in their friendship.

How far can two people understand each other? If one tries to express oneself as truthfully and honestly as possible, will a counterpart understand? Or are misunderstandings inevitable? These were questions that occupied us in the process of making the film.

We both started studying documentary film directing at the HFF Munich in 2020 and that's how we got to know each other. When we both decided to make a film together, we had thoughts and feelings inside us that we had to give a cinematic expression to. In order to express oneself, there has to be a counterpart that one can address. In the course of this joint process, we also experienced the failure of understanding, argued, but never stopped talking to each other. That's why the film is above all about our friendship, which we fought for despite our different characters, lifestyles and artistic ideas.

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