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Keywords

  • Arthouse
  • Arthouse Highlights
  • Award Winning
  • Label: SWISS FILMS
  • Love+: Sexuality
  • Screen: Switzerland
  • Sooner Europe Exclusives: Stories that Matter
  • Storyline: Not just Sex
  • Thomas Imbach
  • Coming of Age
  • controversial
  • desire
  • Mental Health
  • teen
  • the edge

Actors

  • Zsofia Körös
  • Francis Meier
  • Milan Peschel
  • Bettina Stucky
  • Morgane Ferru

Director

  • Thomas Imbach

Drama, Love & Sex


1h 54min


16+

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Switzerland
Turkey
2018
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Lena (16) is in love with her brother and would rather indulge in this fantasy than face reality.

Lena (16) is in love with her brother and would rather indulge in this fantasy than face reality.


Lena (16) feels more attracted to her brother Noah than is usual between siblings. She tries to distract herself with Noah's friend Enis. But the impossible love becomes an obsession. She loses herself in daydreams and soon lives more in her imagination than in the real world. Finally, she plucks up the courage to confess her love to her brother. But he rejects her in shock. For Lena, a journey into the unknown begins.


In his film MY BROTHER, MY LOVE, director Thomas Imbach deals with a deeply personal topic. The film is inspired by Imbach's own biography, but is heavily fictionalized. It deals with a love that is taboo in our society—a sister's longing for her brother, which can only be lived as a delusion. Imbach focuses on adolescence, when this passion first seeks fulfillment and has a thoroughly “healthy” origin.


The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2018 and received the Zurich Film Award. It has also been shown at international festivals such as the Solothurn Film Festival, the International Film Festival Hof, and the Haifa International Film Festival.

Festivals

Cast & Crew