Freak Out! is a documentary film about the story of Monte Verità which mixes interviews, archive materials and animation. The year is 1900 when the pianist Ida Hofmann, together with Henri Oedenkoven became inspiring forces behind twenty years’ experience of a community marked by vegetarianism, freedom, feminism and utopia.

More than 100 years later what happened on the hill above Ascona continues to intrigue: at regular intervals, the life of the extravagant guests of the sanatorium which is today the site of a beautiful Bauhaus hotel – piques the imaginations of artists, writers and directors.
The director Carl Javér made a film halfway between animation and historical reconstruction, on the pioneers of Ascona, which tells the story of a group of affluent kids in 1900 who revolted against their time and gave birth to an original alternative community. Through their eyes the film reveals the mysterious similarities with our own age and what they rebelled against at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Freak Out! has won many international prizes.