A documentary film by Corinne Kuenzli
Length: 105’ Kino / 52’ TV / 2 x 50’ Dok-Serie
Release planned for: January 2025
Nightmares and family secrets are forcing former institutionalized children and foster children given away as cheap labour as well as the next generation to search together for a new present.
Daughters, sons, mothers and fathers want to break the decades-long silence in their families. They search for files, go to archives, rummage through documents and study photo albums. They come up against powerful authorities, prejudices, overburdened families and desperate struggles of mothers for their children. In the course of their search, they begin to understand the causes and effects of the loneliness and violence that characterized the adolescence of children in care and foster children sent away as cheap labour. By listening and telling stories, they create a new present together.
| Filming locations | Switzerland: Cantons of Berne, Aargau / Germany: Berlin |
| Produced by | Vollbild Film Ltd., Elsässerstrasse 248, 4056 Basel / Switzerland |
| Producers | Edgar Hagen, Mathias Hefel |
| Associated producer | Gudula Meinzolt |
| Editors | Aletta von Vietinghoff, Regina Bärtschi, Natascha Cartolaro |
| Cinematographer | Aurelio Buchwalder |
| Sound | Mathias Hefel |
| Partners on board | Bundesamt für Kultur, Sektion Film (FISS), Kantone Basel-Stadt/Baselland, Berner Filmförderung, Schweizer Fernsehen SRF, Suissimage, Göhner Stiftung, Burgergemeinde Bern |