Muttertier

In the organizer's words:

Three siblings, a dysfunctional family and the fleeting moments of happiness: at their mother's sickbed, three siblings reminisce about growing up together between peanut flips, rubber snakes and swimming pool adventures. The lightness of their childhood is overshadowed by their mother's mental illness. While the mother retreats into the bedroom, the children escape into a parallel world of their own creation. The garbage can in the yard becomes a "Titanic", which they use to smash into icebergs and playfully recapture their freedom - until reality catches up with them again.

Leo Lorena Wyss succeeds in creating a melancholy, poetic text about childhood and sibling bonds. A polyphonic examination of the ideals of motherhood and coping with mental illness in the family.