A hard-working woman reluctantly agrees to spend time with her estranged father when he unexpectedly arrives. As a practical joker, the father does his best to reconnect by pretending to be her CEO’s life coach. TONI ERDMANN (2016, 162 min) pairs carefully constructed, three-dimensional characters in a tenderly funny character study that’s both genuinely moving and impressively ambitious. Maren Ade’s awatd-winning feature film is a testament to the precision necessary for really good comedy, proving that fart jokes, sophisticated black humour and a profound sensitivity to broadly experienced human emotions can find perfect balance.