PARADISES OF DIANE

LES PARADIS DE DIANE

By Carmen JAQUIER, Jan GASSMANN

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Social issues - Completed 2024

After the birth of her first child, Diane disappears in an unknown city, but her body reawakens her memories and what she is fleeing from.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2024
Panorama
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Social issues, Female director, Drama
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 98 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Carmen JAQUIER, Jan GASSMANN
    • Producer(s)
    • Jan GASSMANN (2:1 Film)
    • Synopsis
    • On a winter’s evening, a woman wanders through the busy streets of Benidorm. Diane is alone, with only a bag from the pharmacy in her arms. She has left behind Martin and her newborn baby at the women’s clinic in Zurich. In the glow of the neon signs, Diane seems like a shadow moving to the beat of the city – a Mediterranean Las Vegas in decline.

      In this parallel world of all-inclusive tourists, revelers and eccentrics, Diane meets Rose. Without many words, these two strangers find their way to each other, a mutual adoption of two lonely souls. Far from home, Diane reconnects with her body and finds truth…