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6:00 PM

Sad Jokes

Film Screening | Achtung Film !

  • Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal

  • Language Original version with French subtitles.
  • Price 13 CA$
  • Part of series: Achtung Film!

Illustration: a man with a white mask © Salzgeber

Illustration: two people hugging © Salzgeber

Director and Screenplay: Fabian Stumm
Germany 2024, 96 Minutes
With Fabian Stumm, Haley Louise Jones, Justus Meyer, Ulrica Flach, Jonas Dassler, Godehard Giese, Marie-Lou Sellem, Anne Haug und Anneke Kim Sarnau.

Joseph and Sonya share a close friendship and their young son Pino whom they are raising together. While Joseph is working on a new film idea and tries to deal with the breakup from his ex boyfriend, Sonya is suffering from a depression that is increasingly uprooting her from her life. When she is placed in a clinic, Joseph attempts to juggle both his daily life as a father along with his artistic ambitions.
Writer-director Stumm’s second feature after his debut Bones and Names mixes different keys to create a cinematic friction with reality. Sad Jokes is absurd and banal, but also hopeful and touching, or – just like in real life – everything at once. - www.salzgeber.de