Beautiful and Neat Room (2025)

Name: Beautiful and Neat Room
Released: 2025-09-14

Elsewhere: IMDb

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How it feels

The film follows a person who shares their apartment with many roommates over two decades in New York City. It is based on the director's own life and focuses on the experience of living with others.

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What happens

Beautiful and Neat Room is a 2025 feature film written, directed, and produced by Maria Petschnig. It was premiered in competition at the Split Film Festival in September 2025, where it won the Grand Prix for Best Feature. The movie is inspired by Petschnig's own experiences, having shared her living space with more than 60 roommates over the course of 22 years. She has told The New York Times that sharing her apartment was “a way to survive as an artist in New York City”. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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