90 minutes | Drama | In production, completion 2026
During the brief window of the asparagus harvest, two women from very different worlds meet. Between physically demanding fieldwork, piece-rate pressure and fleeting breaks, a closeness emerges that seems to have no place here.
Lara (19) is angry, directionless and without perspective. One of the few Germans working on a Brandenburg asparagus farm, she tries to get through the days—physically and emotionally. Sorina (27) is experienced, disciplined, and a single mother from Romania. For years she has worked seasonally in Germany to secure a better life for her daughter and to finish the house she began building long ago. She keeps her own longing for freedom and love hidden.
The closeness between Lara and Sorina remains a transitional state. It arises under conditions that offer no promise of a future and raises questions for which there is no shared space. As the asparagus season comes to an end, both women are left with decisions that remain unspoken. What lingers are doubts, possibilities—and the question of the price intimacy demands within a system built on separation.
Prințese tells a love story that is deeply political, rooted in the reality of seasonal labor migration in Germany. Blending a fictional narrative with documentary elements, the film integrates real seasonal workers into the world it portrays. The result is a hybrid perspective on a system that sustains everyday life while rendering its human costs largely invisible.
Prințese was developed and produced collaboratively in co-direction, co-writing, and co-production by KONTRA9. The film is a co-production with the Internationale Filmschule Köln (ifs), KONTRA9, and SEVENPEAKS, and was supported in 2024 by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and Culture Moves Europe.
A film by KONTRA9
Cast
Trigal Sandberger Cañas, Marina Palii, Jon Kiriac, Ben Engelgeer, Niels Bormann, Lila Redlich, Julian Jesse, Johanna Serenity Miller, Alexander Braun, Wolf Danny Homann
Directors
Janis Westphal, Lavinia Moroff, Fränzi Heinrich, Lia Campbell
Screenplay
Janis Westphal, Lia Campbell, Lavinia Moroff, Fränzi Heinrich, Julia Goldsby
Director of Photography
Ciara Rigney
Producer
Isis Rampf
Editing
Sophia Timšin
Art Director
Julia Goldsby
90 minutes | Drama | In production, completion 2026
During the brief window of the asparagus harvest, two women from very different worlds meet. Between physically demanding fieldwork, piece-rate pressure and fleeting breaks, a closeness emerges that seems to have no place here.
Lara (19) is angry, directionless and without perspective. One of the few Germans working on a Brandenburg asparagus farm, she tries to get through the days—physically and emotionally. Sorina (27) is experienced, disciplined, and a single mother from Romania. For years she has worked seasonally in Germany to secure a better life for her daughter and to finish the house she began building long ago. She keeps her own longing for freedom and love hidden.
The closeness between Lara and Sorina remains a transitional state. It arises under conditions that offer no promise of a future and raises questions for which there is no shared space. As the asparagus season comes to an end, both women are left with decisions that remain unspoken. What lingers are doubts, possibilities—and the question of the price intimacy demands within a system built on separation.
Prințese tells a love story that is deeply political, rooted in the reality of seasonal labor migration in Germany. Blending a fictional narrative with documentary elements, the film integrates real seasonal workers into the world it portrays. The result is a hybrid perspective on a system that sustains everyday life while rendering its human costs largely invisible.
Prințese was developed and produced collaboratively in co-direction, co-writing, and co-production by KONTRA9. The film is a co-production with the Internationale Filmschule Köln (ifs), KONTRA9, and SEVENPEAKS, and was supported in 2024 by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and Culture Moves Europe.
A film by KONTRA9
Cast
Trigal Sandberger Cañas, Marina Palii, Jon Kiriac, Ben Engelgeer, Niels Bormann, Lila Redlich, Julian Jesse, Johanna Serenity Miller, Alexander Braun, Wolf Danny Homann
Directors
Janis Westphal, Lavinia Moroff, Fränzi Heinrich, Lia Campbell
Screenplay
Janis Westphal, Lia Campbell, Lavinia Moroff, Fränzi Heinrich, Julia Goldsby
Director of Photography
Ciara Rigney
Producer
Isis Rampf
Editing
Sophia Timšin
Art Director
Julia Goldsby
