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What a Feeling

Directed by Kat Rohrer

Two women hit it off in a lesbian bar, in a romantic comedy with real heart that explores migration, class and sexuality in Austria.

  • ABOUT
  • BIO
  • SCREENINGS
  • AWARDS
  • PRESS
  • CREDITS
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Synopsis

Life was going well for Marie until her husband, in front of friends, asks for a divorce. She subsequently spends the night drowning her sorrows in a lesbian bar, where she encounters Fa, a charismatic heartbreaker who is busy running her business and caring for her elderly Iranian mother, whilst avoiding being pinned down by any woman. Well, until now…

Bio

Kat Rohrer is an award winning filmmaker, who has produced, written and directed both narrative films and documentaries, as well as a wide variety of industrial films and commercials.

Her short film, The Search, won Best Short at the 2005, LA Femme Film Festival. Her 2011 short film, Wantless, was selected for the 2011 Hamptons International Film Festival. Kat has also been the Director of Photography on several feature-length documentaries.

Her first feature documentary, Fatal Promises, an in-depth probe of human trafficking, has been show across the US and Europe in multiple film festivals. Kat’s feature length documentary, Back to the Fatherland, was screened in festivals world wide and has been theatrically released in Austria, German, and the United States and aired on TV in Austria, Sweden, Finnland, Germany and Israel. Kat’s 2022 short film “Roads Not Taken” travelled the festival circuit, winning several awards. Her debut feature film What a Feeling had its world premiere at BFI Flare in March of 2024 and continues to screen at festivals around the globe including Diagonale 2024, Frameline 48, New Fest, Vancouver LGBTQ Film Festival and many more where it continues to wow audiences and win awards. The film was released in Germany in the fall of 2024 and has been playing in cinemas for 40 weeks. She is currently developing two TV series with which she has attended the 2023 Torino Next Series Lab as well as the 2023 HerArts Film Lab with her projects.

Screening History

World Premiere - BFI Flare 2024

West Coast Premiere - Frameline 48

Austrian Premiere - Diagonale Film Festival 2024

East Coast Premiere- OutShine Miami 2024

New York Premiere- NewFest 36

Awards History

OFN LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2024 - Best Feature

Seattle Queer Film Festival 2024 - Audience Award

Ljubljana LGBT 40 2024- Audience Award

Best Feature QUEER Streifen Regensburg 2024- Audience Award

Pride Pictures Karlsruhe 2024 - Audience Award

Press

"With a fantastic cast composed of an eclectic mix of characters and the film finding the comedy in most situations, “What a Feeling” is a blast from start to finish."
Next Best Picture
"Kat Rohrer carves a truthful narrative that does justice to two middle-aged women in love. The film paints an atmosphere of empathy which helps the flow glow in its rom-com goodness."
Filmysasi
"This charming movie will have you rooting for their romance, but complications develop, and serious topics unfold which director, Kat Rohrer, infuses with intelligence and humor."
Go Magazine
"While What a Feeling would have likely worked just fine as a simple rom-com, Rohrer digs deeper here in portraying the uniqueness of coming out later in life and the layers of both family and cultural factors facing the women. The end result is an incredibly engaging and meaningful film that should easily find a wider audience once its festival journey winds down and an indie distributor wisely picks it up for what will hopefully be a solid release on all the major streaming platforms."
The Independent Film Critic

Credits

Producer - Michael Kitzberger

Lead - Caroline Peters

Lead - Proschat Madani

Actor - Nicole Ansari-Cox

Actor - Heikko Deutschmann