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It could very well be an American sitcom, if everything weren’t so real. In a Berlin apartment, a family gathers together for an afternoon of prosaic rituals: a conversation around the dinner table, the fixing of a washing machine or other small repairs, such as sewing up a deliberately torn out button. In a carefully staged chain of actions and reactions, the simplest gestures start gaining absurd contours little by little, to the point where even animals and objects begin to play new roles. A witty fable on the enchantment that lies dormant in daily life. Berlin Film Festival 2013.
Ramon Zürcher
Born in Aarberg, Switzerland, in 1982. He graduated at Bern’s University of the Arts, specializing in video, and obtained a second filmmaking degree in Berlin’s Academy of Cinema and Television. His directorial debut was the short Passanten, in 2010. This is his first feature-length film, selected for the Forum section of the Berlin Film Festival 2013.
