Afire
Alternative title: Roter Himmel

Directed by Christian Petzold

A group of friends vacationing in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea face heightened emotions as the surrounding parched forest catches fire.
Afire is a superbly controlled drama about artistic insecurity, desire and emotional blindness during a hot summer by the Baltic Sea. Thomas Schubert is wonderfully irritating, Paula Beer is luminous, and Christian Petzold balances dry humour with tragedy in a film that grows richer as it unfolds.

Afire

Alternative title: Roter Himmel

Directed by Christian Petzold

A group of friends vacationing in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea face heightened emotions as the surrounding parched forest catches fire.

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Afire is a superbly controlled drama about artistic insecurity, desire and emotional blindness during a hot summer by the Baltic Sea. Thomas Schubert is wonderfully irritating, Paula Beer is luminous, and Christian Petzold balances dry humour with tragedy in a film that grows richer as it unfolds.