About this Event
The German Film Office is pleased to present a free screening of Babystar, the debut satirical drama by Face to Face with German Films ambassador Joscha Bongard. Q&A with Bongard to follow.
On their account “our_bright_life”, Stella and Chris have documented their meteoric rise from childless couple to wealthy social media moguls, with their now sixteen-year-old daughter Luca as the star. Accustomed from her publicized birth to being in the limelight, Luca spends her life playing the online ambassador of her picture-perfect family, selling skincare products, ads, and a trained AI model of herself to fund their expensive lifestyle.
When Stella and Chris raise the prospect of introducing a new baby sister into the fold, Luca’s world of appearances begins to crack. An emotional crisis begins, threatening not only her parents’ success, but her own self-understanding as both its envied producer and its suffocated product.
“Babystar encourages the viewer to see beyond the easy schadenfreude of watching this photogenic [family] eventually unravel—instead, the film wants us to examine the ways in which all families struggle to maintain a bond in our hyper-digital modern age.” —Tim Grierson, Screen Daily, 09/26/2025.
Babystar world premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. It was an official selection of the Hamburg Film Festival, the Cleveland International Film Festival, and the São Paulo International Film Festival, among others.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Goethe-Institut New York, 30 Irving Place, New York, United States
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