Overview

• Seventeen-year-old Simon skips gym class to wander along a Swiss river, drifting through contemplative encounters with teen friends and an enigmatic girl.
• Paul Spengemann’s 16mm cinematography layers foreground and background greenery to evoke a jungle-like immersion in nature.
• Associative vignettes replace conventional plot as the film probes themes of identity and the fleeting autonomy of adolescence.
• Isolée’s first film score weaves subtle electronic textures into ambient nature sounds, heightening the movie’s immersive quality.
• Since its July theatrical release, Willy Hans’s debut has been hailed for its poetic style and secured his place as an emerging voice in German art cinema.