Markus Becker is hit by a car and falls into a coma. The doctors don't believe the 45-year-old will survive the next five to ten days and his father begins making funeral arrangements. Markus' brother Michael refuses to accept this fate. With an unwavering perseverance, creative ideas and humour, Michael manages to get his brother out of the vegetative state. For ten years filmmaker Julia Horn accompanied the two brothers with sensitivity and persistence and was also there do document the moment, when Michael almost loses his own life due to exhaustion. Dear Brother is a love story, a film about what we are willing to do for love and a film about our idea of what it means to be human.
2020 LOLA@Berlinale — Shortlisted for DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS DOKUMENTARFILM [German FilmAward] nominated Deutscher Dokumentarfilmpreis — German Documentary Award
2019 26 Hot Docs Toronto 34 DOK.fest Munich FF Cologne Kinofest Lünen Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival Winnipeg DokKa - Dokumentarfilmfestival Karlsruhe
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