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7:00 PM

Cinéma Goethe: "Bones and Names"

Film Screening|Family Affairs

Scene from the film “Bones and Names” Photo (detail): © Salzgeber

Three people hugging © Salzgeber

A series of German films with French subtitles, selected around a defined theme, presented by the Goethe-Institut Ottawa at the Alliance française d'Ottawa (352, rue MacLaren, K2P 0M6) since spring 2025:

BONES AND NAMES

Knochen und Namen
Germany, 2023, 109 min.
Director: Fabian Stumm
With: Fabian Stumm, Hailey-Louise Jones, Knut Berger, Marie-Lou Sellem, Susie Meyer, Magnús Mariuson, Doreen Fietz, Alma Meyer-Prescott, Ruth Reinecke, Ernst Stötzner, Anneke Kim Sarnau

Actor Boris and writer Jonathan have been a couple for a long time and spend their evenings together apart: one is in bed reading scripts, the other is working at his desk in the next room. While Boris becomes increasingly immersed in rehearsals for a new film with an ambitious director and begins to confuse reality and fiction, Jonathan tries to redefine his voice as a writer. Through the couple's attempts to find the right balance between distance, closeness, trust, desire, and the fear of losing each other, Boris's niece Josie tests her limits...

Bones and Names is actor Fabian Stumm's first feature film as a director and screenwriter. With sequences full of humor and tenderness, he composes an intelligent and entertaining reflection on the nature of family, romantic, and professional relationships.