30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
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Section: Beyond the Childhood Horizon

When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before (2023) 15

Germany | 2023 | 116 min.

Growing up on the grounds of one of Germany's largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow - different. For Joachim, the director's youngest son, the patients are like family. They are also much nicer to him than his two older brothers, who drive him into fits of rage. His mother, painting watercolors, longs for Italian summer nights instead of constant German rain, while his father secretly, but not discreetly enough, goes his own way. But as Joachim slowly grows up, his world, not only through the loss of his first love, gets more and more cracks...

CountryGermany
Year2023
Duration116 min
Rating15
LanguageGerman
SubtitleCzech, English
Directed by Sonja Heiss
Screenplay Sonja Heiss, Lars Hubrich
Director of Photography Manu Dacosse
Music Dickon Hinchliffe
Edited by Julia Karg
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Biography

Writer, screenwriter and director from Germany. At the Munich Film School, she directed the documentary Karma Cowboy (2002). She made her debut with the feature-length drama Hotel Very Welcome (2007), followed by the film Hedi Schneider Is Stuck (2015).

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