Manic 

Charles Manson who, together with his cult, is responsible for the death of Sharon Tate and several other people is the most radical but not the only guru who cast a dark shadow on the hippie movement. 

A sunny Carribean island, early 1990s. A loving dad films his four kids as they fool around, grunt, and eat bananas. Thirty years later, one of his children, now an adult woman, asks herself: who actually was their father, known to different people under different names, and why is the whole family going insane now, with her sister constantly in panic and her brother throwing knives at his relatives? Starting as a young woman's simple recollection of her idyllic childhood, Kalina Bertin's films quickly unravels into a documentary thriller, in which every question gets an ever more shocking answer. The human psyche gets overwhelmed by the grand history: if their grandfather had been tortured in the Korean POW camp, is it any wonder that their father rejected the world and moved to a tropical island, believing himslef to be the chosen one? The lives of the younger generations are slowly poisoned by the family's skeletons in the closet but how deep can you dig with your camera in search of the truth? And how can you find it in yourself to come to terms with the past, both your own and the others'?  

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