90 minutes of total therapy. One room; 26 people. Thoughts are interwoven; sentences become monsters and allow terrible images to emerge in our mind's eye. This is the most formally consistent film that we have seen. NICHT ALLES SCHLUCKEN soberly debates a charged topic. Without exposing the protagonists, the camera focuses on faces, gestures and expressions. Perspectives are interlaced in a gently moderated rhythm of montage. The three directors, Jana Kalms, Piet Stolz and Sebastian Winkels, introduce us to the regime of psychiatry - the medicalised immobilisation of patients - with a precise, earnest, indignant and never blustering approach. A film that campaigns against sadness. A film that demonstrates that every political statement is worthy of its own aesthetic form.
