All About Me

Director: Caroline Link, Germany, 2018, 100 mins

Awards:
2019 Bavarian Film Awards (Best Directing)
2019 German Film Awards (Outstanding Feature Film, Best Supporting Actress, Highest grossing Film of the Year)

Based on the memoirs of the comedian Hape Kerkeling, whose childhood in the Ruhr Valley was shaped by coal dust and the carnival season, the story told in All About Me is funny, sad, and warm all in one. The young Hans-Peter (later nicknamed Hape) realises early that he has the gift of being able to make others laugh: his grandparents, the customers at his grandmother's general store, his fun-loving relatives, the parents of his classmates – the only person whose spirits he can't lift, try as he might, is his depressive mother, who takes her own life when he is nine years old.