Personal and societal upheavals are explored via the minutiae of everyday life in this unconventional, Bresson-inspired tale of fading loves.

Veteran German filmmaker Angela Schanelec makes radical films full of intimate observations; their plots and characterisations secondary to her exploration of the strangeness of moments in time. In The Dreamed Path, she paints an oblique picture of two waning relationships, three decades apart.

In the early 1980s, a Greek hiking trip is interrupted by news of a family tragedy; in modern-day Berlin, an actress parts ways with her husband. Set against the backdrop of a changing Europe – Greece prepares to join the EU; the Berlin Wall comes down – Schanelec’s film zeroes in on the everyday routines and objects that shape her characters’ lives.

'Like her most noted forebears (Bresson, Godard, Denis), Schanelec seeks to activate thought and sensation through economic, medium-specific methods ... very little in contemporary cinema looks or operates like this.' – Film Comment