Äned am Bärg (Yonderland)

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Red and Blue move through the rooms of a secluded house beyond the Swiss mountains, following the quiet rhythms of their days, waiting—for her, for something to happen, for time to move. But time lingers, folds, repeats. The house is not a home but a residue, an echo of past lives, past desires, past rehearsals of belonging. It is not a place of transition but of repetition, an architecture of disappearance where presence and absence collapse into one.

Set against a hauntingly still landscape, Äned am Bärg (Yonderland) blurs the line between reality and memory, expectation and loss. Through dreamlike imagery and enigmatic interactions, it explores the weight of waiting, the unraveling of identity, and queerness as a state of suspension, a refusal to arrive.

Cast: Cate Jarema, Val Minnig, Renée Steffen, Li Tavor, Gamba. Camera: Val Minnig

The production of the film was supported by Fundaziun Nairs.

Äned am Bärg won Best Experimental at LA Indie Shorts and Vegas Shorts, Best LGBT film at Shunyatam International Film Festival, and was nominated as Best Experimental at Denver Indie Film Festival.