Paradox Lake

Matt is a disillusioned young man, having to deal with himself as well as with an over-protective mother. He decides to take time-out from everything, and starts working at a summer camp for autistic youth; something that will change him forever. Life at camp becomes a struggle between the leaders' different views on how to deal with the children, as Matt's own humility is put against rougher ideas. As he seems to develop a special connection to one of the little girls via a secret game, the situation is carried to its extremes. He is forced to fight almost all the staff to continue his search for a way to communicate with the non-communicative. Paradox Lake is a complex film. Pedagogic undertones are wrapped in suggestive and almost psychedelic cinematography, well representing the different states of mind of the autistic. Shemie Reut's direction becomes something out of the ordinary as he jumps between far out filmmaking, which takes a sometimes threatening and suspenselike tone, and a more casual style. Kasper Sperber