8 DAYS IN AUGUST

8 DAYS IN AUGUST

8 DAYS IN AUGUST

Director: Samuel Perriard
Feature film | Switzerland, Italy | 2023
90 min | Dolby 5.1

57th Hof International Film Festival
2023

Always the same, every year – but this time, it’s completely different. As an established tradition, Helena and Adam and their son Finn spend their summer holidays every year in the same place, by the sea in southern Italy, and at the same time. Always in the company of their old friends Ellie and Matti, and their son Luca.

But one day, on the way back to the car, after a hot day on the beach, Finn collapses and is briefly unconscious. He is only kept in hospital for a short time before the doctors give him the all-clear … but it’s enough to undermine the façade of the seemingly well-functioning family. The question of what triggered Finn’s breakdown refuses to go away, and a perceptible discord creeps into the harmony of the previously carefree days – between the two families, but above all between Adam and Helena.

With Florian Lukas, Fortunato Cerlino, Julia Jentsch, Sami Loris, Sarah Hostettler

Screenplay Samuel Perriard, Markus Ziegler, Cinematography Gaëtan Varone, Editing Rebecca Trösch, Production design Demian Wohler, Costume design Sophie Reble, Sound Jacques Kieffer, Music Balz Bachmann, Production Sarah Born, Martin Rattini, Rajko Jazbec, Dario Schoch