Where We Belong

Parents split up, a family falls apart. Two separate worlds emerge from what once was considered a unity. In constant transition, children now live between two homes. Where We Belong approaches their reality and focuses on how fragile, but also how brave, smart and funny children perceive their situation.

Location   Switzerland
Language   Swiss German & French
Length   82 minutes
Release   February 2019

Festivals

• 69. Berlinale
• Full Frame Docu­men­tary Film, Durham USA
• Visions du Réel, Nyon
• Millen­nium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Warsaw
• Transilvania Inter­national Film­festival, Clus
• TelAviv International Children’s Film Festival
• EBS International Documentary Film Festival, Seoul
• 5-Seen Filmfestival, Gliching
• Inconvenient Films, Vilnius
• Dok Leipzig
• Filem'on, Brussels
• Camerimage, Polen
• idfa, International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam
• Französische Filmtage Tübingen (Fokus Schweiz)
• Guangzhou International Documentary Filmfestival, China

Awards

• Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, "Zwierciadło" Award for the Best Film on Psychology
• Nomination Zürcher Filmpreis
• DOK Leipzig, Young Eyes Film Award
• Swiss Film Award, Best Documentary Film 2020 (Nomination)
• Swiss Film Award, Best Film Score 2020 (Nomination)
• Swiss Film Award, Best Film Editing 2020 (Nomination)

Press-kit  Download [PDF, 7 MB]

Press

• Variety  Jacqueline Zünd on Locarno Documentary ‘Where We Belong’ by Jamie Lang [PDF, ~40 KB]
• Cineuropa  Review: Where We Belong by Muriel Del Don [PDF, ~50 KB]
• SRF 10vor10  Neu im Kino - Die Eltern schweigen über ihre Trennung – reden tun die Kinder von Michael Sennhauser
• Woz 46/2019  ‘Als die Mutter in die Ferien fuhr’ von Caroline Baur [PDF, ~180 KB]
• Sennhausers Filmblog  Die Unverpassbaren, Woche 46–2019
• SRF Kultur  Wenn Eltern sich trennen - ‘Oft ist es den Kindern wichtig, dass es fair ist für die Eltern’ Sandra Steffan im Gespräch mit Karin Banholzer
• Annabelle 15/19  Interview von Mathias Heybrock [PDF, ~500 KB]
• Grosseltern Magazin 11/2019  ‘Wenn sich Eltern trennen’ von Eveline Ruth [PDF, ~4 MB]

World Sales   Autlook Films