German director Aron Lehmann is enjoying rather a prolific period at the moment. While his new comedy Jagdsaison (lit. “Hunting Season”) has just been released in cinemas, his next feature is already waiting to head to the big screen. What You Can See From Here [+lee también:
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The drama unfolds in a remote village, and the protagonist is a middle-aged woman, Selma, who has a special gift: she can foresee death. Each time an okapi appears in her dreams, a person in the village dies in the days that follow. Selma lives together with her granddaughter Luise, who has been hiding herself away since the untimely death of her childhood friend. It's only when a Buddhist monk comes to the village that she finds a way out of her grief and gives the power of love a chance. The film is also a portrait of rural life, a village and its unusual inhabitants.

The two main roles are played by German star Corinna Harfouch (The Girl with the Golden Hands, Mostly Minimalistic [+lee también:
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The movie is a co-production between Claussen+Putz Filmproduktion and StudioCanal Film, in collaboration with German TV channel ARD. StudioCanal Germany is in charge of the picture’s distribution.

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