Henning Stöve

A Berlin, Philippe aimerait faire des études de photo. Wiebke recherche un compagnon. Jessica souhaiterait que tout change et Maria que rien ne bouge. Swantje cherche la vérité, Michael ne sait pas ce qu'il veut et Thomas n'a envie de rien. Quand il faut de surcroît changer de lieu de vie, tout se complique. Des couples volent en éclats, d'autres se forment. Et chacun s'aperçoit que déplacer des meubles et des cartons n'est jamais tout à fait anodin. A chaque déménagement, chacun doit reprendre ses marques, s'adapter à une nouvelle vie. C'est l'occasion de comprendre qui sont ceux qui comptent vraiment dans l'entourage...

When Marie’s boyfriend proposes to her in front of his entire family, she doesn't know what to say and flees to the countryside to think it over alone. But her thoughts accompany her. They sit around her in flesh and blood: Her mother pesters her with baby names, exboyfriends climb down trees and a woman in a sari narrates her life in poems. Her would-be fiancé eventually joins her, clashing his own luggage of thoughts with hers. But what if you show your thoughts to each other? How much honesty can a relationship take? In her first feature, director Zora Rux, an apprentice of Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson, tells a surrealistic story of the search for one’s true self in poetic tableaus.

He, a model young man, who has been dutifully fulfilling the expectations set upon him, slides into an intensifying depression. Considering himself a failure in front of his living room mirror, sets him on a journey beyond his reflection.

The life of Karsten, a mortician, isn’t going that well at the moment. Just in time for Christmas, his parents inform him during the festive dinner that they want to commit suicide together. In five days. Usually used to death, he tries everything to convince the dear mother Marion and the father Theodor, suffering from Parkinson’s disease, not to pursue their plan. But the conflict about the self-determined death opens up old wounds – and as Karsten’s own health deteriorates rapidly, it is no longer clear who needs to be saved.