Dying

Tragedy draws a successful German orchestra conductor back to his complicated family in an epic saga that finds hope in the darkest of places.

Tom, a respected conductor, is too preoccupied to give his ailing parents enough attention. He’s juggling work – overseeing a new orchestral piece – and a confusing relationship with an ex who wants him to co-parent her newborn child. Meanwhile, daughter Ellen fumbles through alcohol-induced blackouts and an affair with a married colleague. An epic, darkly funny symphony of family dysfunction.

Winner of Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival and Best Film at the German Film Awards, Dying is a brilliant and sharply comic portrayal of a family slowly unravelling as they contend with the chaos life brings.