Sarah-Jayne Bedford

A director and actress pay a visit to an obsessed film editor whose hypnotic soundscapes shatter their perceptions of reality. (ALTER)

"Weltschmerz" is an emotionally-charged, character-driven short drama about a concentration camp prisoner who has just failed in an escape attempt and is now in the hands of a seasoned SS Officer, who will make an example out of her before her execution in front of the entire camp. Meanwhile, at a German creek, two children live in their own world of innocence.

In Paris during World War I, the notorious femme fatale Margreet stage name Mata Hari, a Dutch exotic dancer-courtesan and a French Officer fall madly in love until he's told she spies for Germany.