Martin is rejected by his cold, uncaring mother and beaten by his father: a childhood without love. It sounds like a case right out of the book “The Drama of the Gifted Child” by world-renowned Swiss psychoanalyst Alice Miller. Except Martin is the son of the children’s rights advocate.
After Alice Miller’s death, Martin embarks on a journey to finally understand the contradiction between the famous childhood trauma researcher and the destructive mother. He finally discovers what stood between him and his mother: the greatest drama of the 20th century, the Shoah, the annihilation of the Jewish people. As a young Jew, Alice Miller assumed a false identity to survive amidst the Nazis in Warsaw – and was forced to witness all the atrocities. But Alice repressed these traumatic experiences, disassociating herself from them for the rest of her life. The deeper Martin digs into his mother’s biography, the clearer it becomes: his own emotional pain is the legacy of something that he himself never experienced.
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Solothurner Filmtage 2020, CH | DOK.fest München 2021, DE | Krakow Film Festival 2021, PL | Fünf Seen Film Festival 2021, DE
OKTOBER 2025
ein Film von Sigurður Anton Friðþjófsson
Island 2024, 92 Minuten, OF mit dt. UT
FSK 16
Mi, 8.10., 20:40 KIZ Royal Kino
Mo 20.10., 20.00 Votivkino, Wien
Do 8.10., 20.10 Volkskino Klagenfurt
Mo 27.10., 20:30 Cinematograph
ein Film von Nathalie Borgers
Jetzt im ADMIRALKINO
JETZT im Kino:
BLUM - Gospodari svoje buducnosti
Ein Film von Jasmila Žbanic
Wien: VILLAGE CINEMA, MILLENIUMCITY
ab 24.10. auch im TOPKINO
5.11., 20.00 Film + Talk im ADMIRALKINO
Graz: KIZ Royal Kino
Linz: Moviemento
Innsbruck: Leokino
Klagenfurt: Volkskino
Ein Film von Reinhard Tötschinger
EDIMOTION, DE 2025
Nominierung:
BESTE MONTAGE - ANDREA WAGNER
für ihre herausragende Arbeit an
DEAR BEAUTIFUL BELOVED
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BiH´s entry for the 98th ACADEMY AWARDS
in the category: BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
A film by Diana Fabianova
National Premiere:
23 Oct One World FilmFestival Slovakia
International Premiere:
a film by Mwita Mataro and Helmut Karner
International Premiere
World Premieres:
ELEMENT OF(F) BALANCE
Fr 17. Oktober 17.30 Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus
Mo 27.10., 14.00 Filmmuseum
LOIS WEINBERGER - RUDERAL SOCIENTY
Sa 18.10., 16.30 Metro Kinokulturhaus
Di 28.10. 14.45 Metro Kinokulturhaus
October: Dok Leipzig
November: IDFA