Sommer Slatter Film

Germany 2026, 104 min
by Indira Geisel

As right-wing support grows in Europe, the German center-left politician Thomas Geisel fights to keep himself and his leftist-liberal party from sliding into irrelevance. Searching for politics that make sense to him, the former mayor of Düsseldorf joins a new left-wing populist party that wants to win back the working class. To his 93-year-old father, a lifelong social democrat, this is a betrayal. In this first-person documentary his daughter follows the campaign and family. Just a cockfi