Family Matters

Switzerland 2010
Sarah Horst
27’
In Competition at FIPA, Biarritz 2011

If it’s difficult for a father to find out his son is a homosexual, imagine what it must be like the other way around! All grown up now, Lukas tries his best to understand: did his parents really want him or did his eccentric father have him on a whim? The film sits us down at the family table, eavesdropping in on conversations that, at the end of the day, aren’t all that different from what we're used to. In fact, thanks to this adorably off-beat family, you might even start wondering whether love, sex, marriage, family, heterosexuality and reproduction are as interdependent as society would have us believe.