Common Ground – Films – Visions du Réel

Allmend

Jonathan Jäggi
Switzerland | 2026 | 88 min
World premiere
Language : Swiss German
Subtitles : English, French

After her father’s death, Lilo wanders through Zurich’s Allmend, a common public space on the edge of the city. It is there that her father spent most of his time during the last years of his life. In her search for his traces, she listens to the landscape, sketches nature and meets the regular walkers. A gentle exploration of grief, resolutely on the side of life.

After her father's death, Lilo wanders through Zurich's Allmend, a common public space located on the outskirts of towns in German-speaking Switzerland. It was where her father spent most of his time during the last years of his life. Searching for traces of him, she wanders between highway, river and grassy expanse, between the noise of traffic and the rustle of wind in the trees, listens to the landscape, sketches nature and its inhabitants, meets regular walkers and records the thoughts that cross her mind. Here, the work of grief is done not in withdrawal, but in the attempt and desire to reach out to others. It takes place through the exploration of a territory, which is also a realized utopia of commonality – modest yet very real, shared and to be shared, available and to be imagined. We look for traces of the loved one who has passed away in others and in the landscape. Elements emerge quietly. Field notes become stories, between documentation and imagination, between absence and presence. The creation of an open cinema, like a space to explore, where the intersection of viewpoints becomes collective attention.

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