Splish Splash Forever!
Pre-teens Pola and Polly are inseparable friends who spend the long summer days at Splish Splash, the local pool, where Polly’s mom runs the concession stand. When the pool shuts down for lengthy repairs, Polly’s family departs Switzerland for Canada in search of steady work, leaving Pola heartbroken about losing her BFF and angry at her village for closing the coolest spot in town. With the help of Rosalie, the smartest (and geekiest) girl in her class, Pola plots to reopen Splish Splash, recruiting friends—and former enemies—to her side. Her grassroots-style civic activism goes all the way to the top, and even Mayor Petrović-Stucki can’t get the girls off her back or out of her office. Featuring some wildly creative costumes, musical dance numbers, and fabulous young talent, Splish Splash Forever! is an upbeat and infectiously inspiring story of activism, kid-style, and the enduring power of friendship. —KD Davis
In German with English subtitles.
Director/s
Natascha Beller
Natascha Beller is a Swiss Chinese filmmaker. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Film from Zurich University of the Arts and completed a screenwriting program at NYFA in New York, where she wrote the screenplay for Vaterjagd (2014). Beller is the winner of the 2009 ADC Young Creative Award and was invited to the Cannes Lions Festival. In 2017, she wrote the SRF film Zwiespalt, which received the main prize at the renowned Baden-Baden Television Film Festival. Beller m made her directorial debut with Vagenda Stories (2019). She developed and directed the SRF Series Advent, Advent, a Christmas (2020). In 2022, she went to Germany to direct the sitcom Ruby.