Ne m'oublie pas

After instantly entering the international spotlight with his film David Wants to Fly, which explored David Lynch’s fascination with meditation, young German documentarist David Sieveking returns this year with a much more personal film. In this portrait of his mother, severely stricken with Alzheimer’s disease, he delves deeply into his family history. Looking into his mother’s past as a feminist activist and a liberated married woman, the film is both the story of a complex and fascinating life, and an unforgettable testament to a couple’s struggles against the tides of history and illness. In remarkably unsentimental fashion, Forget Me Not bravely tackles one of the most fundamental questions in any human relationship: will we grow old together? Critics’ Week Grand Prize at the Locarno Festival.