The second feature by innovative young German filmmaker Fred Kelemen, Frost focuses on the plight of a woman who flees an abusive relationship with her lover and takes their seven-year-old son on a journey back to her childhood home in the countryside in the former East Germany. Leaving their basement apartment on Holy Night, the pair seek refuge in the east only to encounter a frozen landscape filled with abandoned homes, a church in ruins, and people who refuse them shelter. Incorporating highly realistic acting, the film seems to unfold in real time as Kelemen tracks his exiles through both the psychic and physical landscape of contemporary Germany. Frost premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and received the Fipresci Prize at the Rotterdam Film Festival.