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Bonanza, mining town of the Rocky Mountains, ancient privileged spot of the Gold Rush and smallest town of Colorado, had once 6000 inhabitants, 36 saloons, 7 ballrooms and many prostitutes. Today, No Man’s land in the middle of Colorado, it is reduced to 5 houses and 7 people, obsessed with spirituality, shut away in fear and xenophobia. Among them are: a priest fond of science-fiction, an old school witch, a New Age lesbian couple dialoguing with elves, an old couple and an ambiguous fireman in love with nature and God! On five screens, corresponding to the five houses of Bonanza and disposed in a wide model representing the town, we can observe the lives of those weird characters, living far from everything and everyone, recluse in their eccentric universes, and being on very bad neighbourly terms! Those crazy natives keep insulting and accusing each other of everything (witchcraft, murders, offences), well installed in their own screens and almost never meeting. The members of the group Berlin have achieved a nice and pertinent entomologist work, innocently asking: and if, in miniature, Bonanza was representing the world?

“The Belgian group offers a terrific filmed portrait of this miniature world agitated by gossip, resentments, jealous and murders accusations.” Libération “We enter this Bonanza like we’d enter a remote haven, isolated from the vicissitudes of the world; we leave it like we’d leave a polar documentary, incredulous and amazed.” Cathy Blisson / Télérama