“The heat keeps rising. People grow distant, in curious kinds of solitude. This is where Jonah (28) provides comfort for strangers. But when he finds himself in the role of the father for 9-year-old Nika, his life starts to unravel.” Welcome to the world of Don’t Let the Sun , the first fiction feature from Swiss documentary filmmaker Jacqueline Zünd ( Where We Belong , Almost There , Goodnight Nobody ), a cinematic contemplation of how external factors, namely climate change , could affect and shape our inner worlds.
Written by Zünd and Arne Kohlweyer, with Nikolai von Graevenitz as cinematographer, the movie stars Levan Gelbakhiani ( And Then We Danced ), Maria Pia Pepe, Agnese Claisse ( Amore Synthétique ), and Karidja Touré ( Girlhood ). Sideral Cinema is handling i