EUNIC-Film Series
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This film inaugurates the INTERRAIL cycle, a journey through contemporary European cinema, organized by the EUNIC cluster of Montreal (European National Institutes for Culture) in collaboration with the FIL (Festival International de Littérature):
Daughters (Töchter)
Based on the novel of the same name by Lucy Fricke.
Director: Nana Neul, Deutschland, 2021, 122 min.
With: Birgit Minichmayr, Alexandra Maria Lara, Josef Bierbichler
Original version with English subtitles.
Martha is desperate. Her seriously ill father Kurt booked himself into a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland and she is supposed to accompany him. Since she has not been able to get behind the wheel since a traumatizing accident, Martha asks her best friend Betty to drive them in Kurt’s old rickety Golf. It’s to be a final journey, but nothing ever ends as one has imagined it, and certainly not when it comes to life.
With defensive humor of the gallows kind and a truthfulness that hurts,
Daughters tells the story of two women in the middle of their lives, of farewells that spare nobody and of fathers who disappear too soon, all via a grotesque journey southwards, through Switzerland, Italy and to Greece, always deeper into the depths of one’s own history.
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