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WIR ERBEN


Simon Baumann, CH, 2024, 96'
WORLD Premiere
Screenings:
Sun. 11.8.2024, 11h00, La Sala
Mon. 12.8.2024, 9h00, Palacinema 1

en / it / de / fr

20 years ago, Simon Baumann’s parents acquired a large farm in the south-western part of France, where they emigrated to. As they are getting older, they are wondering what to do with the farm. None of their sons really want to emigrate to France. Simon Baumann grabs his camera and travels to France – because there is a need to talk. What should happen to the heritage? Who wants what? Do our parents’ dreams have to be ours too? Do we want to inherit anything from parents at all? Where does our life, which is predetermined by the family, end and where does our own begin?

Simon Baumann, who never shows from behind the camera, tells a very intimate family story, in a sensitive, warm, and sympathetic way. The beautiful scenery provides the atmospheric backdrop for the portrait of his parents who were once politically active as a left-wing green power couple in Switzerland and who have meanwhile created their paradise in France. But is it also a paradise for their offspring? As in his previous film Zum Beispiel Suberg, Baumann uses the camera to explore his origins, family, and roots, asking questions and doing research. Wir Erben is an intimate family portrait as well as a political story. A story about privileges that perhaps only these two generations are familiar with – the older generation, who had a lot of success in the 60s and 70s, and who now has much to bequeath to their descendants. Far more than just possessions.

Brigitte Häring