Fiction / approx. 90 min. / Production planned in 2026

"The Inverted Well" tells the story of two insomniac women in their mid-fifties living in worlds that couldn't be more different. Nina files nails in an authoritarian state, while Susanne is stuck in a rut in her own home. United by their insomnia and frustration with the world, they find themselves—bed and all—swallowed by a hole that opens up in the ground one evening, catapulting them upside down to the other side of the globe. One wakes up in the waiting room of a government office, the other in a women's prison cell. Is this what a fresh start looks like?

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Crew:

Director: Narges Kalhor
Script: Narges Kalhor and Aydin Alinejad

Commissioning Editor ZDF: Lucia Haslauer

A coproduction of the ZDF / Das kleine Fernsehspiel.
Selected project of the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2025
and Forum Alentours 2025.
Script funded by FilmFernsehFonds Bayern.