VANESSA HEEGER

(b. 1994 Salvador, Bahia)

Berlin-based film editor, sound designer and filmmaker.

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vmheeger@gmail.com

AS IF MOTHER CRIED THAT NIGHT

19″ fiction film
(Germany, 2023)

Position: Sound Designer

Synopsis

An Iranian couple clings to parenthood as a possible means to stay in Germany, unraveling a web of uncertainty and sacrifice in their desperate quest for asylum.

Team

Director: Hoda Taheri
Producer: Julia Rose Gostynski
Sound Designer: Vanessa Heeger
Production: DFFB

Selected screenings

Locarno Film Festival: Pardi di Domani
German Short Film Awards [Nomination]
INTERFILM Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Berlin – Confrontations
Winterthur International Short Film Festival – International Competition
Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival
Las Palmas International Film Festival
Berliner Kurzfilmrolle 2024
Concorto Film Festival
Drama International Short Film Festival
FilmSchoolFest Munich
Max Ophüls Film Festival