A loving couple is struggling through a holiday in secluded togetherness: Chris and Gitti enjoy themselves in their secret rituals, silly habit, unfulfilled desires and power struggles. But the encounter with another couple is changing their bourgeois complacency and sending ripples through the dynamics of their relationship. This delicate, quietly powerful film won acclaim and Silver Bear trophy at Berlin International Film Festival in 2009. Director’s

Maren Ade studied at the University of Television & Film in Munich. She made short film EBENE 9 in 2000 and a feature debut THE FOREST FOR THE TREES in 2003.