Since the virus began taking over headlines and sweeping aside public life, 'we've had to get used to the idea that we've made a film that's very similar to what we're all experiencing now,' Friederich tells AFP. Last week's regional feature film winner 'Live' isn't an up-to-the-minute documentary, but a near-future thought experiment that brewed for years in the head of director and screenwriter Lisa Charlotte Friederich. Emptied streets below Frankfurt's towering skyscrapers, people desperate for human contact after endless video calls and lockdown enforcement mark one of the winners at this year's Lichter film festival in Germany's financial capital.
