The latest from Germany’s Caroline Link—director of Festival hit Beyond Silence (MVFF 1996) and Oscar©-winning Nowhere in Africa (2002)—is a subtle, powerful drama about loss and reckoning. A Bavarian family struggles to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of a favored son’s death but, emotionally numb to the impact it has had, they proceed by keeping up appearances. The mother’s commission of a portrait of her two children, however, acts as a catalyst for delving into the psychic drama beneath frozen surfaces. Her daughter Lilli, a dancer (in a subtle and deeply resonant performance by the striking Karoline Herfurth) is haunted by questions raised in the wake of her beloved younger brother’s demise. She careens along impervious to the interventions staged by her parents, until she and the painter, Max (Josef Bierbichler), strike up a surprisingly rich friendship that speaks eloquently to the deepest ties between art and life. US Premiere.
—Michael Read

Presented in Association with Goethe Institut San Francisco

Running time: 128
Country: Germany
Category: World Cinema
Directed by: Caroline Link
Producers: Robert W. Cort, Scarlett Lacey, Martin Moszkowicz, Oliver Nommsen, Uschi Reich
Screenwriters: Scott Campbell, Caroline Link
Cinematographer: Bella Halben
Editor: Patricia Rommel
Cast: Karoline Herfurth, Josef Bierbichler, Corinna Harfouch, Hanns Zischler, Cyril Sjostrom

Ticket Code: YEAR17S

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