Now at the Movies: Aus meiner Haut (Skin Deep)

What would it be like to see the world through another person's eyes for once, in their body as well as with their sensations and perception? Alex Schaad plays out this idea in his intense science fiction drama "Aus meiner Haut" ("Skin Deep"), quite literally: in it, a young couple whose relationship has not been as perfect as it seems for some time accept an invitation to a remote island where mysterious things happen. Despite initial hesitation, the two take part in an exciting experiment - a body swap with another couple. Leyla (Mala Emde) and Tristan (Jonas Dassler) thus become Fabienne (Maryam Zaree) and Mo (Dimitrij Schaad), and vice versa. But this "gift" has a very different effect on the subjects. Tristan does not feel at all comfortable in the other body, Leyla, on the other hand, is absorbed in her new attitude to life and refuses to return to her old existence - with unforeseeable consequences... At the Filmfest Hamburg, this extraordinary reflection of identity and gender boundaries, of sex and relationships, as clever as it is exciting, won the Hamburg Producer's Prize, and in Venice it was awarded the Queer Lion Award.