Foundling-Bird

‘Why didn’t you leave the twelve white flowers alone? Those were your brothers – now they’ve all turned into ravens.’ Brothers Grimm ‘The Twelve Brothers’ Fragments of fairy tales alternate with observations made by children. Documentary and staged sequences run into one another. There is no break and no contradiction between reality, the children’s behaviour and the imagination, all three are tightly intertwined. ‘To remember in images means to abolish the censorship that thought expressed in words exerts a little bit. (Berlinale)