What a Feeling

A chance encounter at a lesbian bar brings two women leading strikingly different lives together in this winning romantic comedy. “You can dance right through your life” is the mantra of free-spirited, unattached Fa (Proschat Madani, Cuckoo), whose charm and popularity with women are well-established. She runs her own carpentry business and cares for her aging Iranian mother, who doesn’t know Fa is a lesbian. Marie Theres (Caroline Peters, Walk on Water) is a successful but slightly uptight doctor whose conventional life is upended when her husband of 20 years abruptly asks for a divorce. The two women could not be more different…or more attracted to each other. Each will have to break free from the confines they have built for themselves if they truly want to be happy.

Named after Irene Cara’s iconic anthem from Flashdance, Kat Rohrer’s stunning fiction feature debut captures the nuances of relationships, and the thrill and endless possibilities of new love while exploring migration, class, and identity in Austria.