All About My Sisters
A searing portrait of Jin, filmed by her sister. Abandoned as a baby, Jin, now a young woman, faces multi-generational family trauma.
174'
USA
IFFR 2021
For Thomas, it’s all about sport. The young high-jumper sticks to the uncompromising training and dietary regime at a sports camp. We soon learn that this is creating an unhealthy situation – to put it mildly. It’s clear from the start that there’s something very wrong in this boy’s life. Not only does he regularly lock himself away to self-harm, or practise leaving a voice-mail for his absent father – the military-style control exercised by his mother, Margot, is absolutely suffocating. Both for Thomas, and for the viewer.
The latter is thanks in part to the alienating film style used by debut director Leri Matehha. This distinctive stylisation in Thomas der Hochspringer has a tragicomic quality, similar to the films of Roy Andersson, although here the undertone is even more excruciating. We are left with the big question: how high exactly can Thomas jump?
IFFR 2021
Programme IFFR 2021
A special edition of Bright Future in which each programmer presents a fresh feature debut from the cutting edge of filmmaking.
Still: Phoenix
Read more about this programmeA searing portrait of Jin, filmed by her sister. Abandoned as a baby, Jin, now a young woman, faces multi-generational family trauma.
174'
USA
IFFR 2021
The sensation of being overwhelmed by nature shot in aesthetic black and white. With an undercurrent of spiritual connectedness.
79'
Netherlands
IFFR 2021
Poetic film essay on Syria – a country that for many now only exists in memories, or dreams.
83'
Canada
IFFR 2021