FAMILIENREISE

"Familienreise - Family Trip" is Michel Gutman's contribution to the series "Denk ich an Deutschland - When I think of Germany", in which renowned German directors have documented their very personal vision of their country, its particularities and its people. This series has already been screened in many festivals, like Berlin and Cologne, where it has received a lot of attention.

Grandma Kriemhild, her son Michael and her grand-daughter Clara travel to Poland on a trip to discover their family's past and its secrets. Grandma Kriemhild spent her childhood in Lower Silesia before she and her parents were displaced in 1946.

Today everything has changed, even the places names and there are few reminders of the past. However, a visit to the Kriemhild family house brings back childhood memories that the old woman tries to convey to her grand-daughter. But Clara is anchored in the present. She meets up with her pen-friend Paulina. For her every day is like a great adventure. The film discreetly skirts around the fact that the grand-daughter's life begins where the grand-mother's life ends.

Gutman offers a very personal reflection on the concepts of homeland and being a stranger, youth and death, past and future