achtung berlin: Formen moderner Erschöpfung

In the organizer's words:

achtung berlin: Forms of Modern Exhaustion [German - OmeU], DE 2024, D: Sascha Hilpert with Birgit Unterweger, Rafael Stachowiak, Wolf List, 118 min (competition feature film, Berlin premiere)

For over a hundred years, people have been coming to this place in the hope of a cure. So do Nina and Henri, both in midlife, burnt out and from different backgrounds. Their paths cross between the dining room, reclining cure and therapy at a time when they are struggling to find peace of mind. The house snows in, everything becomes slow and quiet. Ghosts and stories from the long corridors become the companions of her days. At the same time, a historian is researching documents from the early days of the sanatorium in the house archives. The Barner Sanatorium becomes the setting for an archaeology of exhaustion.