A group of normal 14-year-old teenagers at a secondary school in Zürich with the normal yearnings for love and acceptance. But the power of social media, with its high-gloss selfies and perpetual pressure towards cooler and sexier, increasingly forces the kids to deny their true feelings. So a tragedy runs its course, one in which it is almost impossible to differentiate between perpetrator and victim, guilt and innocence.
Silver Forest is a brutally realistic coming-of-age story, set in a small Swiss town in a bleak winter landscape. A group of boys struggle with their mounting anger with the mundane world, resulting in a string of escalating acts of violence. Deep in the forest they finally find a release for their aggression by joining a Nazi gang - only to discover the boundaries where harmless play turns into murder.
Little Sina is a completely normal child. She laughs, draws, loves to dream and loves to express all her thoughts in pictures. But in her bright and colorful fantasy world, there is no room for the structured alphabetical world of adults. Sina refuses to learn written language at school. After a sobering conversation with the teacher and school management, Sina's mother tries to persuade the child to write at home with increasing pressure. The little girl blocks every attempt. The conflict escalates and the mother is successful. But not without consequences.
