Premiere of the Day: Reality Must Be Addressed (2022) by Johanna Seggelke

In this deeply personal piece, filmmaker Johanna Seggelke questions herself, her feelings and memories, and almost casually unfolds an enchanting coming-of-age story about a love that emerges and fades in the seemingly endless summer. With a light hand, the film maintains the delicate balance between shimmering beauty and incidentality and manages to make the complicated dialectics of intimacy and strangeness palpable. The montage interweaves feathery holiday videos with an extraordinary score and the director’s sometimes wonderfully quirky, sometimes wise reflections. A delightfully direct film which preserves the rough edges of the moment and at the same time tries to outwit the undeceivability of one’s own emotions – at least for the time it takes to smoke a cigarette. Link Review: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/02/reality-must-be-addressed-review-telling-the-unvarnished-truth-about-first-love Link to watch: https://www.truestory.film/videos/reality-must-be-addressed-trailer