When will it be again like it never was before

Wednesday, 26/03/2025 | 6 pm 
Terenure Library, Templeogue Road, Dublin 6W

Director: Sonja Heiss, 116 Minutes, Germany, 2023
Language: German with English subtitles

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 while Joachim slowly grows up, his world, not only through the loss of his first love, gets more and more cracks...

Based on the autobiographical novel by Joachim Meyerhoff, this incredibly funny and moving film deals with how hard it is to be a family. It may not be a normal family, but who wants to be normal, anyway?
A tale of growing up under unusual circumstances, featuring a fantastic cast, directed by Sonja Heiss, who helmed award-winning “Hedi Schneider is Stuck” and wrote the bestselling novel “Rimini”. Camille Loup Moltzen plays young Joachim, Arsseni Bultmann 14-year-old Joachim and Merlin Rose plays Joachim as a young man. Star Devid Striesow is his psychiatrist father, while Laura Tonke, who won the German Film Prize for “Hedi Schneider is Stuck”, plays his mother, a very unique woman. The quirky supporting cast consists of professional actors and lay actors with and without psychiatric conditions.

Presented by Terenure Library and Goethe-Institut Irland.