Canadian director Harald Hutter, who has lived and worked in Paris for several years, has been developing work of enormous simplicity and tenderness, which finds in the ephemerality of the film medium the fleetingness of everyday gestures. In his feature film debut, the filmmaker chose to film those closest to him: his mother (Francine-Y Prévost) and especially his father (Horst Hutter). Filmed over just two days, we follow the steps of a retired teacher who is beginning to show the first signs of dementia and his wife, an informal carer and poet. Her words, together with the delicacy of her son's images, make up a touching portrait of a man who is disappearing.
Up The River With Acid premiered at the Cinéma du Réel festival, where it won the Grand Prize in the International Competition.