Hinter den Farben

By accident Micha gets trapped three days in the hollow behind a waterfall. He was sucked in by strong currents while mountain climbing. Through the veil of water in front of his eyes, he sees the mountain rescue team withdraw on the second day of an unsuccessful search. Micha is invisible. Eight people retell his story from a first-person perspective, enriching it with their own extreme experiences. The waterfall becomes a symbol of absolute powerlessness and the narrators grow into an ensemble of a collective experience of self-empowerment.

Hinter den Farben is visually very minimal. While the film is powerful and profound, it also carries a softness. From the start, it was essential that each of the few musical cues remain gentle, never overpowering, while still carrying exactly the right emotional weight. Even though the score amounts to only a few minutes of music, the director Julia Groteclaes and Jonas spent a great deal of time revisiting and refining it until the music arrived at what felt like the perfect balance between tension and delicacy.