SIMON SAGT AUF WIEDERSEHEN ZU SEINER VORHAUT

Simon Grünberg is going to have his Bar Mitzvah — to finally have his alliance with Abraham. His parents have separated, that’s why Simon lives on a rotating basis with his faithful father Frank or with his cosmopolitan mother Hannah. No surprise that any meeting in­cludes apocalyptic disputes. Hannah writes erotic love stories, even more enthusiastically since the split. On the other hand, Frank becomes more and more religious and practices the Jewish rules and rituals ever more consistently. So his dearest wish is to make sure his son’s Bar Mitvah is perfectly carried out. Simon’s life undergoes a fateful turn, however, when he falls deeply in love with his new rabbi Rebecca, who inconveniently is 20 his senior. But there is one thing Simon is sure about: “For everything in life there is a replacement. Not for my first love, though. That’s what the wise men in the Talmud say.” Together with his friends, Clemens and Ben, Simon decides, according to all Machiavellian rules of war, to win Rebecca’s heart.

Director

VIVIANE ANDEREGGEN was born in 1985 and studied Post-Industrial Design, Media Studies and Ethnology in Basel and Film Directing in Hamburg. Also active as a freelance photographer and a video artist at numerous theaters, her award-winning films include: GROSS STATT KLEIN (2012), FÜR LOTTE (2013), HABIB UND DER HUND (2013), her graduation film BURDEN’S WEIGHT (2014), and her feature debut TIME TO SAY GOODBYE (2015), as well as numerous commercials for the Mozambican Tourism Department.