Der Nachtmahr
After a party, the life of 17-year-old Tina turns into a nightmare: every night she is haunted by an abysmally ugly creatures. But neither her parents nor her friends believe her. One night Tina overcomes her fear and approaches the creature. She notices that it is moved by the same feelings and emotions as she herself. She hides it in her room, between the two grows a confiding relationship. But then her parents discover the creature with their own eyes.
“The Nightmare” concerns dealing with anxieties. The audience takes part in Tina’s growing self-awareness. She meets her own shady sides in form of a strange creature which she learns to accept – Tina’s internal world gets visible by the nightmare. At the same time the film is about the acceptance of personal peculiarities and the social approach to anomalies. For these issues AKIZ has found an extraordinarily artistic expression, provoking, irritating – and convincing.