Felix Hüsken

Basada en los escritos personales de Patricia Highsmith y en los relatos de su familia y sus amantes, la película arroja nueva luz sobre la vida y la obra de la famosa escritora de novelas de suspense, impregnada de temas relacionados con el amor y su influencia decisiva en la identidad.

Markus Becker is hit by a car, dragged along, his head bashed on a curb and he falls into a coma. The doctors don’t believe that the 45-year-old will survive the next five to ten days. His father makes preparations for the funeral. Markus’ brother Michael refuses to accept this fate and begins an extraordinary battle. In his brother’s apartment he seals Markus’ clothes to preserve the smell. He records the neighbors’ voices. Every day, Michael exposes his brother to things that are familiar and films everything that is part of Markus’ life with a DV camera. He wants to keep him in his world and to bring this world to his bedside. He documents every step of Markus’ development, risking his own life in the process, wishing that his brother will one day regain the ability to lead a normal life. This full-length documentary accompanies Michael Becker for 10 years on his unwavering and creative mission to bring his brother Markus back to life.

This is the tale of a young woman, growing up in the age of the internet and turning the search for oneself into a public spectacle, allowing kids from all over the world to live their life through hers. Through her fragmented personalities you see the emergence of a new generation, in which the concept of a fixed identity has grown old.

Durante más de cuarenta años, el periodista británico Robert Fisk ha informado sobre algunos de los conflictos más violentos del mundo, desde Irlanda del Norte hasta Oriente Medio, siempre con los pies en el suelo y un cuaderno de notas en la mano, viajando a paisajes devastados por la guerra, investigando los hechos y enviando informes a los medios de comunicación para los que trabaja con la ambición de captar el interés de una audiencia de millones de personas.

Helge Schneider's extraordinary talent is his ability to improvise which shows his unfailing creativity. "I paint the everyday-life in the brightest colors myself", he says about himself. Reality and fiction are tough to tell apart in his life. How does a man like him, who doesn't want his audience to know too much about himself, react on a documentary portraying him as a person?