Vacation

Summer. A remote country house in the northern German region of Uckermarck, and a family unit which is slowly crumbling apart. The mother is tired of lonely rural life. The daughter’s marriage is at an end. The teenage son has his first quarrel with his girlfriend. The grandmother falls seriously ill and dies. Dramatic events, which nonetheless creep up on the protagonists unawares.

„VACATION deals with the attempt to accept that the family is an organism, composed of both triumphant and ill-fated love stories, which must constantly reconfirm itself,” explains director Thomas Arslan. Ill-fated love stories dominate this group portrait of four generations of a family which Arslan carefully reunites only to let it disintegrate again.

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