What a Feeling
Two women hit it off in a lesbian bar, in a romantic comedy with real heart that explores migration, class and sexuality in Austria.
Two women hit it off in a lesbian bar, in a romantic comedy with real heart that explores migration, class and sexuality in Austria.
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…
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.
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
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
Producer - Michael Kitzberger
Lead - Caroline Peters
Lead - Proschat Madani
Actor - Nicole Ansari-Cox
Actor - Heikko Deutschmann