Synopsis
The family business demands their full attention: renting, selling and repairing excavators. But when the daughter dies, the family idyll falls apart at the seams. A new Heimatfilm with people searching and machines dancing.
Presented by the director
Filmmaker
Piet Baumgartner
Director and visual artist, his works interrelate cinema, theatre and fine arts. He studied journalism and later film in Zurich, Munich and Warsaw with Andrzej Wajda. He has directed several short films, including Alle Werden, premiered in Locarno. After making his feature film debut with the documentary The Driven Ones, he premiered Bagger Drama, with which he won the New Directors Award in San Sebastian.
Filmography: Bagger Drama (2024, D'A 2025), The Driven Ones (2023), Inland (short film, 2015), Elite (short film, 2013), Alle Werden (short film, 2011)
Awards and festivals
Best Film of the New Directors selection
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