Film screening
Home for the weekend

01/27/17
6:30pm
Goethe-Institut New York

The perfect family, a long summer weekend in the country – and then nothing will ever be the same. Grandpa Günter and Grandma Gitte receive a visit from their son Marko, a writer in Berlin, and their new grandchild, and everything seems just fine. Then Grandma, who has taken anti-depressants for years, announces that she is healed and will no longer be taking her medication. All at once, the family’s perfect façade shatters, brother is turned against brother, and Grandma disappears into the forest.

Director: Hans-Christian Schmid, Germany, 2011/2012