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7:00 PM

Cinéma Goethe: When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before

Film Screening|Family Affairs

WANN WIRD ES ENDLICH WIEDER SO, WIE ES NIE WAR | Dir. Sonja Heiss (2023) | Arsseni Bultmann & Laura Tonke © Komplizen Film GmbH, Warner Bros. Entertainment GmbH

WANN WIRD ES ENDLICH WIEDER SO, WIE ES NIE WAR | Dir. Sonja Heiss | Familienfoto © Komplizen Film GmbH, Warner Bros. Entertainment GmbH

New thematic film series by the Goethe-Institut Ottawa with films from Germany, presented with French subtitles in our new office at the Alliance Française Ottawa (352 MacLaren Street, K2P 0M6):

When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before
Wann wird es endlich wieder so, wie es nie war
Director: Sonja Heiss
Germany, Belgium | 2023 | 116 min.
With: Arsseni Bultmann, Laura Tonke, Devid Striesow, Camille Loup Moltzen, Pola Geiger, Sarah Bauerett, Esther Bechtold

Growing up on the grounds of one of the largest psychiatric clinics in Germany is somehow different. For Joachim, the clinic director's youngest son, the patients are like family. They are also much kinder to him than his two older brothers, who provoke him into outbursts of anger. His mother, a watercolour painter, longs for Italian summer nights instead of the constant German rain, while his father secretly, but not discreetly enough, goes his own way. But as Joachim slowly grows up, his world begins to crack, and not just because of the loss of his first love...