SAD JOKES

Joseph (Fabian Stumm) and Sonya (Haley Louise Jones) share a close friendship and have a young son, Pino, whom they are raising together. While filmmaker Joseph is working on a new film idea and trying to deal with the breakup with his ex-boyfriend Marc (Jonas Dassler), Sonya is suffering from a depression that increasingly tears her out of her life. When she is placed in a clinic, Joseph tries to juggle his daily family life and his artistic ambitions.

In his second feature writer/director Fabian Stumm mixes different moods to create a cinematic friction with reality. SAD JOKES is absurd and banal, hopeful and touching or – like real life – all at once.