Country: Switzerland
Language: Swiss, German

About the film:

World Premiere, 2022 Cannes ACID program

Freedom and sexual attraction collide, sparking an intense, erotic love story. Bigna, a twenty-eight-year-old scientist, is used to having everything under control, even her erotic desires always follow rules. Thirty-three year-old Frank searches for meaning in a haze of drugs, feeding on other people’s affection. Their different worlds collide, and they become obsessively entwined in a passionate affair.

Images courtesy of Strand Releasing

About the filmmaker:

Jan Gassmann is a Swiss director working at the intersection between fiction and documentary filmmaking. At the age of 21, his documentary Chrigu (2007) premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, winning the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. Many other festivals (including Acid Cannes) and awards followed. Since then, he has been back in Berlin twice, with Off Beat (2010) and Europe, She Loves (2016). His other films, Karma Shadub (2013) and the omnibus Heimatland (2015), won awards in the main competitions at the Nyon and Max Ophüls Festivals, respectively, and premiered at Locarno.

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