Archive of films Best Thing You Can Do with Your Life / The Best Thing You Can Do with Your Life
Germany / Mexico
2018, 93 min
Section:
Documentary Films - Competition
Year: 2018
Why did the director’s brother enter a conservative Roman Catholic order, causing him to sever all ties with the outside world? The shooting of this fresh, self-reflexive documentary about an eroded sibling bond becomes the pretext for long-desired personal contact and a therapeutic aid to help her heal herself.
Synopsis
“I am afraid that I am doing something I might not have thought through,” Zita Erffa says despondently in the introduction to her profoundly personal documentary. She sets out for Connecticut to visit her brother Lászlo, who, years earlier, entered the conservative Roman Catholic order of the Legionaries of Christ. Yet her quest to uncover the reasons for this radical decision, which caused him to sever practically all ties with his family, is accompanied by uncertainty as to her own motivations for probing the life of someone close to her. The gentle humour and breezy self-reflection nevertheless gradually transform her confidently directed work into an effective pretext for long-desired dialogue with her beloved brother, and a therapeutic means to help her heal herself.
Martin Horyna
About the director
Zita Erffa (b. 1986, Bangkok, Thailand). Filmography: In Massmanien leben (2011, short doc.)
Contacts
Petruvski Films
Münchner Straße 12, 83684, Tegernsee
Germany
Tel: +49 176 684 009 31
E-mail: [email protected]
Alibi Communications
Bergstraat 158, 3010, Kessel-Lo
Belgium
Tel: +32 495 773 882, +32 477 982 584
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.alibicommunications.be
About the film
Color, DCP
European premiere
Section: | Documentary Films - Competition |
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Director: | Zita Erffa |
Screenplay: | Zita Erffa |
Dir. of Photography: | Bruno Santamaría Razo |
Editor: | Zita Erffa |
Producer: | Zita Erffa |
Production: | Petruvski Films |
Coproduction: | Ojo de Vaca, HFF Munich |
Contact: | Petruvski Films, Alibi Communications |
Guests
Zita Erffa
Film Director
Alejandro Guzmán
Film Crew
Brigitta Portier
Publicist