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From the jury
“We’ve often seen film and theatre combined, but in DE SITCOM it’s done with such creativity and thoughtfulness that it becomes pure philosophy – without ever feeling like you’re watching a heavy-handed manifesto.”

It’s been eight years since the legendary sitcom DE SITCOM, created and performed by a theatre collective on the verge of financial collapse. There was no budget, just a real group of friends in a real coffee bar. A TV series that was so unusually authentic and radical, so hilarious and unsettling, so deeply human and tragic that it immediately became a cult hit. Yet, to the growing fanbase’s astonishment, the series ended with an astounding, unresolved cliffhanger. Life had mercilessly overtaken fiction.

Eight years later, sitcoms have become retro, a genre from a time when laughing still came more naturally than crying. Nostalgia has become a business model, and so producers reunite the group. How have they fared? Can they still move forward together? DE SITCOM is a schizophrenic tragicomedy wherein actors with tragic lives must perform their own stories—but as comedy. At the same time, you witness the making of the sitcom itself, including the loves, the breakups, the mistrust, the cautious attempts at reconnection, the betrayals, and the persistent hope that somehow, everything will turn out alright. The hope for a happy ending.

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