Five minutes to break your heart—bring tissues.
Father and daughter drive to his mother's house on the countryside to bring private items to the hospital after her apoplexy. The father gets confronted with the fear of losing his mother. The daughter observes this realization through children's eyes.
Direction
Kubiena crafts entire lifetimes without dialogue.
Acting
Karner's face says everything words cannot.
Director
Simon Maria Kubiena
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kubiena uses the car as liminal space—neither hospital nor home, where men collapse privately.
Austrian cinema's tradition of compressed emotional devastation lives in this 2019 festival darling.
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