Peacock

Matthias works for My Companion, an agency where he can be hired as professional company. Whether as a caring son, a sparring partner for practicing arguments, or a +1 for an evening at the opera, he effortlessly plays any role requested of him. But the better he becomes at meeting others’ expectations, the further he drifts from himself. Behind his carefully orchestrated life, a void begins to grow—one that becomes increasingly difficult to ignore. An identity crisis becomes inevitable. In his darkly comedic feature debut, Bernhard Wenger explores, with both pain and wit, what happens when you shape yourself entirely around the desires of others. Peacock is an absurdist and confronting film about losing yourself in a world that constantly demands something from you.