The Best of All Worlds

Adrian is seven and lives with his mother in Salzburg. From outside, the city is associated with music and culture; the place Adrian grows up in is the drug scene. His mother Helga is an addict and moves back and forth between her love for her son and her addiction. Even so, life is not bad for the child; his mother has built him a world out of imagination. Then the child protection services find out about the situation. It is Adrian Goiginger's first feature and it tells his own childhood; the Adrian in the film is the director himself. That is why the story neither condemns the mother nor prettifies the situation; it holds both at once. Verena Altenberger plays Helga. The film looks through the child's eyes, which is why poverty and addiction look like a game for a long time. A hundred minutes, and its most shattering place is the moment the way of looking changes.