What We Wanted

What We Wanted (Was wir wollten, 2020) is an Austrian drama by Ulrike Kofler you can watch online on iFILM. Alice and Niklas want a child more than anything, but every attempt ends the same way. Worn out, the couple books a quiet holiday on Sardinia.

Next door arrives a loud Austrian family with two kids — a living picture of the life the pair keeps failing to build. Lavinia Wilson and Elyas M'Barek play the spouses, and forced proximity to someone else's contentment slowly reopens what they thought was healed. The film stays small, built on glances and things left unsaid.

Adapted from a Peter Stamm short story, it was Austria's submission for the Best International Feature Oscar. One for viewers who like restrained European cinema about grief nobody says out loud. Stream What We Wanted (2020) online on iFILM.