International stars Alexander Fehling (Inglorious Basterds) and Bérénice Bejo (The Artist) are featured in this perfectly paced slow-burn drama about love, survival and what it means to be a family.

Aaron is German; Lea is French. They have been a couple for two years and Aaron has grown close to Lea’s eight-year-old son Tristan. Perhaps too close: Tristan already has a father and Lea worries the situation could become confusing. The three journey to a cabin high in the Italian Dolomites so Aaron can show Tristan his favorite mountain, but a series of potentially catastrophic mishaps challenges the faith and courage of everyone involved.

Writer-director Jan Zabeil keeps his camera close enough to feel intimate while giving his actors space to breathe real life into every scene—and find their way through this spectacular and forbidding landscape.