Young Professionals Honorary Mention
Our short film explores family, creativity, the psyche, and transgenerational traumas. It deals with a father who pays little attention to his son. The boy is the complete opposite of his father, as he is still bursting with energy and creativity. The father was a bongo player, and now the only thing that the boy wants is to play this instrument as well. The father will not allow this, however, because the bongos are of a great sentimental value to him. The son responds by fleeing into his world of creativity; he withdraws to his play corner with his paper and pencil. In this world, which is shown from his perspective, he meets his father, in the form of a bongo-playing monkey. A chase scene follows, as the boy wants to play this instrument himself. Just as he is about to succeed, he is pulled back to the real world, where he gazes at two drawn monkeys, symbolizing him and his father. The father sneaks up behind him and admires his son’s work. The credits show the successive life of the two protagonists.
Biographies
Credits
Music: Harold Taylor, Alex Machado
Voice-over father: Mario Wessely
Assistants: Florian Binder, Matthias Eisenheld, Michaela Rentsch, David Jakubowicz
