Best Documentary Film 2014 - Awarded
Father's Garden – The Love Of My Parents
by Peter Liechti
In the past, the parents were left feeling forlorn and miserable whenever their son came to visit – and it was much the same for the son. Therefore, they avoided one another whenever possible. For decades the situation had hardly changed. The film traces a reencounter years later between the director and his parents – and is an attempt at a personal revision of the past. In the process, a new view of the parents emerged, an image which also provides again and again insight into a bygone era. The narrative of their marriage, however, borders on a classic drama and leaves us feeling forlorn and miserable even today.
Screenplay
Peter Liechti
Production
Liechti Filmproduktion GmbH Zürich, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen Zürich
Crew
Cinematography: Liechti Peter, Guyer Peter
Editing: Stöcklin Tania
Soundediting: Eidenbenz Florian
Rerecordingsoundmix: Eidenbenz Florian
Lighting: Meyer Robert
Costumes: Ruch Eva
Festivals:
13th DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, 49. Solothurner Filmtage, 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam, 16e RIDM Rencontres internationales du documentaire Montréal, 37. Duisburger Filmwoche, 56. Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm, doc Buenos Aires 13° Muestra Internacional de Cine, 18th Busan International Film Festival, 23rd "Message to Man" International Film Festival St. Petersburg, 7. Fünf Seen Filmfestival, 48th Karlovy Vary International Filmfestival, 10th Planete + Doc Film Festival Warsaw, 10. Crossing Europe Filmfestival Linz, 19e Visions du Réel Festival international de cinéma Nyon, 43. Internationales Forum des Jungen Films Berlin
