Official Selection out of Competition | Switzerland, France, Belgium | French | 86 min
A farm in the Jura Mountains, far away from the nearest village, is where Pauline and Alex’s dream of a self-sufficient life in harmony with nature has come true. Now the couple wishes to become totally independent by producing their own power. The pragmatic and easy-going engineer Samuel visits them to oversee the construction of a wind turbine. Pauline feels immediately attracted to him and suddenly realizes how limited her life has been.
Bettina Oberli was born in 1972 in Interlaken, Switzerland. From 1995 to 2000 she studied cinema at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zurich (HGKZ). After her first prize-win- ning film “ Im Nordwind ” (2004), her second film, “ Die Herbstzeitlosen ” (2006) was distributed in Swiss cinemas for a year and seen by over 600,000 spectators, as well as being sold throughout the world. In 2008/2009, Bettina Oberli directed the German language film “ Tannöd ”, an adaption of Andrea Maria Schenkel’s crime drama. She directed “ Anna Karenina ” at the Basel Theater before directing the feature-length film “ Lovely Louise ” (2013) and the SRF/ARTE two-part series, “Private Banking” (2017). She is currently working on a new feature film and two television series.
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