Screened as a world premiere, the film is a tragi-comedy about a Casanova type of man who goes to Russia in search of his illegitimate son. In the shocking film Nothing Bad Can Happen (Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2013), the main character is a member of Jesus Freaks, a Christian punk movement, in Houston, an alcoholic headhunter loses touch with reality, in Silvi (Best Film, German Film Critics Association 2013), which bears resemblance to the past year's TIFF favorite Gloria, a 47 year old woman left by her husband decides to start all over again and in Love Steaks, the unexpected box-office success of 2014 in Germany, a timid masseur and an impulsive cook fall in love with each other.
Surreal visions are the salt and pepper of the extremely Finsterworld, and Wetlands, selected in Locarno and Sundance, is full of sexual encounters rated R. The program was made possible with the support of German Films and the Goethe Institute.
