Lara

Lara (2019) is a German drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Jan Ole Gerster. It's Lara's 60th birthday, and that same evening her son Viktor plays the concert that could define his career. She's a failed pianist. He's the thing she built, and now he won't answer her calls.

Corinna Harfouch carries the film through a single day in Berlin — Lara buying up the remaining concert tickets and handing them to strangers, circling closer, unable to step back. Tom Schilling plays Viktor at arm's length, barely on screen. Gerster holds the camera close and keeps the music almost entirely off until the moment it counts. Stream Lara online on iFILM.