House of Yang

In the organizer's words:

When German-Chinese Jessie returns to her parents' house in the Black Forest with her teenage daughter Mila to take up her inheritance, she soon finds herself confronted with the traumas of her own youth. After all, her sister disappeared here inexplicably back in 1999. As a look at her grandparents' history shows, this was by no means the first time that strange things have happened in the old building. For three generations, Jessie's family has suffered from ghosts of the past that just won't come to rest. And Jessie and Mila seem to have inherited an ancient curse along with the house. "House of Yang", on the other hand, which emerged from 180 submissions as the winner of the SWR ideas competition on the theme of "Deep in the Southwest", is a real blessing: a harrowing family story told with the means of genre cinema, proving that it's not just the Grimms in the Black Forest who can come up with fascinating material.