When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before

31/10/2024 - quanly

Feature Film/ Germany / 116 min/2023

Director: Sonja Heiss

Screenwriter: Sonja Heiss, Lars Hubrich

Director of Photography: Manu Dacosse (SBC)

Production: Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade, Jean-Yves Roubin, Cassandre Warnauts

Production designer: Erwin Prib

Music Composer: Dickon Hinchliffe

Cast: Devid Striesow, Laura Tonke, Camille Loup Moltzen, Arsseni Bultmann, Merlin Rose, Casper von Bülow, Pola Geiger, Axel Milberg

Synopsis:

Growing up on the premises of a major psychiatric clinic is… different. For Joachim, clinic director Meyerhoff’s youngest son, the inmates are almost part of his family. They’re much nicer to him than his older brothers, after all, who drive him up the wall. As he grows up, Joachim finds his first great love among his father’s patients, loses a brother, moves to the USA and finally returns to his extraordinary family.

Director’s biography:

Screenwriter, novelist and director Sonja Heiss grew up in Munich and lives in Berlin. Her first feature film, Hotel Very Welcome, premiered at the Berlin Film Fest 2007 in the Perspective German Cinema sidebar, winning numerous prizes, including the First Steps Award. Hedi Schneider is Stuck (2015) also premiered at the Berlin Film Fest, in the Forum sidebar, and was screened at numerous international festivals, winning the Hessian Film Prize. For this film Heiss was nominated for the German Film Prize in the screenwriting category.