GOETHE-CINEMA: WHEN WILL IT BE AGAIN LIKE IT NEVER WAS BEFORE

Family Affairs

Monthly thematic film series by the Goethe-Institut Ottawa highlighting films from Germany presented at the University of Ottawa (Hamelin Hall, 70 Av. Laurier East):

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…