My Father's House

Andrej lives in Frankfurt. A phone call brings him back to the place of his childhood, to his father's house. Filmed with a handheld camera in an almost continuous shot, the visit becomes a search for traces with an uncertain goal. The past is conveyed through the dialogue with a former school friend, but even more through the in-between - gestures and pauses in conversation. An exercise in immediacy, grippingly unexcited.

"We are working on our becoming human. That, to me, is the only discernible meaning of life." LUDWIG WÜST