Hadamo

The days of Gottfried and his wife Elfie go by to the rhythm of work in the fields and the care of the animals, on their small farm in the Austrian region of the Waldviertel. Theirs is a precise choice of ethics and life, which leads them every day to reaffirm the desire to relate to animals as living creatures and to the soil as a cosmos that must be understood and respected. Running their farm according to a sustainable and human-scale model guides them from season to season, while hours become days and days become years. The film follows the course of this life with tenacity, avoiding comments or explanations, leaving the images to tell us about a possible alternative model to intensive exploitation. For a whole year, the director lived with and closely filmed his two protagonists, asking questions about their everyday life, their choice and their aesthetic position with respect to all of this.