Afire

Afire is a 2023 German drama film directed by Christian Petzold, starring Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel and Enno Trebs. The relationship drama focuses on four people who are trapped in their holiday home on the Baltic Sea by uncontrolled forest fires. The film won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on 22 February 2023. It was released theatrically in Germany on 20 April 2023. In August 2023, it was shortlisted as the German submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film for the 96th Academy Awards. Synopsis In a holiday home on the Baltic Sea not far from Ahrenshoop in hot, dry summer, four young persons meet. There is a forest fire and slowly and unnoticeably they are enclosed by the walls of flame. Trapped, they get closer, and then the desire, love and sex overtakes them. Cast Thomas Schubert as Leon Paula Beer as Nadja Langston Uibel as Felix Enno Trebs as Devid Matthias Brandt as Helmut Esther Ash as Ms. König, hotel manager Jennipher Antoni as Mrs. Roland, cashier Jonas Dassler Marieke Zwart as firefighter