Underplayed Gems

Heimkommen (2015)

Heimkommen poster
Directed by
Alex Feil
Country
Germany
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A lonely German grandfather fakes his own death to trick his busy family into coming home for Christmas. The ruse brings them together for a festive reunion that none of them expected.

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What happens

Heimkommen (German: [ˈhaɪmˌkɔmən] ; "Homecoming") and the related hashtag #heimkommen is a German commercial video for the supermarket corporation Edeka that went viral in November and December 2015. In the commercial, Arthur Nightingale plays a German grandfather faking his own death to reunite his family on Christmas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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