Synopsis
A female documentary filmmaker who is unable to find an interesting story. A pedicurist who carefully sets aside the hard skin removed from the feet of his aged female patient. A rich couple that refuses to sit in a German-built car. A history student uninterested in a class visit to a concentration camp. A wild man training a raven in the woods. In this anthology film, all are bound by family ties or a moment of coincidence in a country where the sun always shines and everybody is beautiful, polite, successful or happy. That is until they reveal their darker side, and we discover that the step from idyll to inferno is a short one.

Program Note
When people are caught using cell phones while driving by police patrol, some pay a fine while others bribe the police secretly.
 Likewise, people live in between principles and anomalies. Finsterworld shows a world where anomalies work. ‘Finster’ means
 black, unclear, ignorant, unpleasant, eerie, and ominous in German and is also a part of the director’s name.

 In her first feature film, Frauke FINSTERWALDER, once a documentary director, examines the dense network of loose relationships
 among various people in multiple generations. Within the relationships, she discovered how modern Germany is becoming
 insensible to history and conscience after unification.

 The only joy for an old woman in a sanatorium is getting a massage for her disabled legs. A middle class couple considers their trip
 to Paris more important than visiting their mother in the sanatorium. The massage therapist’s love is as anomalous as avoiding
 crackdown with bribery. A police feels rather relieved in a bear costume than in a uniform. A documentary director needs issues
 more than facts. A teacher who insists on learning the accurate history is accused of being inflexible. Students have no qualms
 about mocking the truth. A hermit loses his temper and shoots a gun while trying to preserve the environment. Living in the world
 with these people, a kid believing in the truth drops out of the society and becomes the sacrificial lamb. It is bizarre how people live
 and love in this irrational world, but at the same time very realistic. [LEE Angela]