Today I welcome filmmaker and novelist Sonja Heiss to the show. Her new film When Will it be Again Like it Never Was Before has been playing at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival [Berlinale]. I absolutely loved the film! It's one of the best movies I've seen in awhile (film festival or otherwise) - set your Google alerts! 

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FILM SYNOPSIS: When Will it be Again Like it Never Was Before  

"The household Josse grows up in hardly corresponds to the typical  notions of family: his father is the director of a psychiatric clinic,  on the premises of which their family home is located. Josse spends his  childhood and adolescence with two brothers and liberal parents whose  bourgeois life is threatening to break up their marriage. Again and  again, Josse is plagued by fits of anger and sadness. He finds a  sympathetic ear, consolation and the feeling of not being an oddball  primarily among the psychiatric patients. The adaptation of Joachim  Meyerhoff’s bestseller is carried by a well-known cast and tells a  tragicomic tale about growing up in the 1970s. A soulful celebration of  life in all its absurdity and transience."