With OUR MONEY, director Hercli Bundi will be touring German-speaking Switzerland from August 21. The documentary takes a multifaceted look at the nature of money and asks the question: Do we serve money – or does it serve us?
Synopsis
Humans created it themselves, but it only works because they believe in it. Over the centuries, our financial system has become so complex that even those familiar with it can only explain it in part. A bank robber, a crypto expert, a pastor, and an economist from the Swiss National Bank try to do so anyway. Director Hercli Bundi invites us on a journey into the fragile universe of money and reveals the ambivalent power of money in his film. Money that we lack seduces us, makes dreams come true or shatters them.
In personal conversations with people from various social spheres, Bundi not only explores individual approaches to the subject of money, but also questions what value money should have in our society.
Several special screenings will take place during the tour, including one on September 4 at the Riffraff cinema, Zurich, followed by a discussion entitled OUR MONEY – Freedom or Shackles? with Hercli Bundi, Prof. em. Urs Birchler and Florian Rommel.
Another special event will take place on September 7 at 3.30 p.m. at Riffraff cinema, when German film critic and podcaster Wolfgang M. Schmitt (Die Filmanalyse, Wohlstand für Alle) will discuss the film from an ideology-critical perspective with filmmaker Hercli Bundi.