Hof Gold Prize 2021 goes to Lukas Röder and Alisa Kolosova

"All this is so exciting because nothing actually happens. Very little is spoken, and yet I watch spellbound. Because it is real. And at the same time, I know that it is not real. This is the perfect description of the new reality. The cinema is a measuring device. The measurement takes place in the viewer. In this case, in me. I have rarely experienced more poignant figures in a narrative. They have stayed with me."

"How Charly, after the breakup of her key relationship, wanders through Germany as if in a dream, rebuilding and healing herself and her world view - that is one thing told here. But how this Germany, various people and situations, all of which have disappeared in the exploitation of the media, slowly become visible again in this film, that is the other issue. It's not something that's told. Instead, it's something that happens to the viewer. In the best sense of the word."