We Are Familiy

In "We are family", three wonderful films portray relationships, role attributions and the resulting conflicts and great emotions. The son has left his father's farm to study in the city: firn tells the story of someone who moved out and wants to stay in touch. Karin Berger humorously condenses 25 years as a single mother of a daughter into the pathetically driving chorale of Carmina Burana. Red Shift - the magnum opus of Swedish film artist Gunvor Nelson - is a fragmentary portrait of three generations of women in one house, radical in its visual beauty and brilliant in its alternation of extreme close-ups and distanced views. (bbu)