EXCLUSIVE: German-French actress Jeanne Goursaud ( Exterritorial ) and German actor Aurel Mertz ( Neo Tropic Tonight ) have been unveiled as the co-stars of Austrian-American director Jason B. Kohl ’s short film Unfit ( Unfähig ), which is already being developed into a feature film.

Mertz plays a struggling single father who gets a surprise visit from his daughter’s estranged mother (Goursaud). As they rehash the past, she makes a troubling request that will change their lives forever.

“I was inspired to make this film by my family’s history with custody disputes, a rich territory for drama,” Kohl says.

Unfit is among a number of projects on the boil for Kohl who broke out with his 2013 short The Stranger , which played in SXSW and Locarno.

His first solo feature w

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