Brother verses Brother

  • Competition Innovation

  • 2025

  • Language: English

  • Subtitles: German

  • United States

  • Tragicomedy, Musical

  • 91 min

“Inspired by a Belarusian director friend, Nikita Lavretski, I told Ethan – deliriously and wildly incorrectly – that an improvised ninety-minute film would only take ninety minutes to make, and would allow us to capture the true weirdness, comedy and pathos of our own existence. And by creating an experience of real life in real-time, we could punk an audience that was increasingly too distracted to watch anything longer than twelve seconds. Simultaneously, we could live out the particular symbiotic glue of twins, who live life without cuts. This would be a tale of codependent brothers trying to separate, by connecting with their father who’s about to die.” Ari Gold, director