Beyond This Place, CH 2010 colour 95  min.
dir: Kaleo La Belle
pro: Patrick M. Mueller, Sebastian Zembol, DOCMINE Productions AG, mixtvision Mediengesellschaft mbH
sc: Kaleo La Belle
ph: Kaleo La Belle
mus: Sufjan Stevens, Raymond Byron Magic Raposa
ed:  Tania Stöcklin
cast: Cloud Rock La Belle, Matt Westcott, Bruce Stoner, Marjie Joy, Starbuck Fleet, Gyana Choi, Geoffrey Gordon, Sandy Gordon
dis :DOCMINE Productions AG

“Stoned for 40 Years” is how Cloud Rock La Belle describes his life. Taking drugs and intense cycling are the only things to which Cloud has remained faithful throughout his life. Now his son, Kaleo La Belle, challenges his eccentric father to a bike trip. Cycling through the Pacific Northwest, Kaleo questions his father’s search for truth and demands justification for his absence in his life. “Beyond This Place” explores Kaleo and Cloud Rock’s failed father and son relationship and questions whether the hippie concept of freedom ultimately succeeded. Soulful and poetic, “Beyond This Place” offers an interesting window into a generation who grew up as the children of hippies. It explores forgiveness, acceptance and family expectations – specifically in the father-son relationship, the unique bond that combines love, acceptance, frustration and misunderstanding in equal measure, and undeniably one of the greatest factors influencing the man one becomes.

50th Krakow FF – Silver Horn for Best Director (category over 60′)
Visions du Réel International FF – Prix Création