Sarah Grether

Dance teacher and mother Nadja left her son Mario with her own mother when he was little. Now she has reappeared on his doorstep, seeking a closeness that knows fewer and fewer boundaries. An uncompromising film about family relationships.

In their feature-length debut, Gossing/Sieckmann dive into the merfolk subculture with performance artist and siren Una. Genre elements, fiction and documentary, self-care, political activism and self-chosen identities blend into one another.

Seventeen-year-old Max has been living in a supported housing community for young people with mental health difficulties for several weeks, but his father Peter refuses to accept these new circumstances. Torn between insecurity and a desire for closeness, Max begins to provoke his father.

When he learns that his ex-girlfriend has passed off one of his scripts as hers and made a film based on it that wins big at a renowned festival, the betrayed man travels after her to confront her.