Edition 24: 1–9 August, 2025

INTERNATIONAL DOX: FEATURES

Beyond This Place

Switzerland
2010 — 95' / Color

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Synopsis

“Stoned for 40 Years” is how Cloud Rock La Belle describes his life. Taking drugs and intense cycling are the only things to which Cloud has remained faithful throughout his life. Now his son, Kaleo La Belle, challenges his eccentric father to a bike trip. Cycling through the Pacific Northwest, Kaleo questions his father’s search for truth and demands justification for his absence in his life. “Beyond This Place” explores Kaleo and Cloud Rock’s failed father and son relationship, and questions whether the hippie concept of freedom ultimately succeeded.

Director Biography

Born in Maui, Hawaii, Kaleo La Belle studied fine arts in New York and film making in Switzerland. Based in Switzerland, the Director of documentary films “Crooked River” and “Beyond This Place”, works internationally as a director and cinematographer of documentary films.

Director

Kaleo La Belle

Producer

Patrick M. Müller

Sebastian Zembo

Cinematographer

Kaleo La Belle

Simon Weber

Editor

Tania Stöcklin

Sound

Stephan Heiniger

Contact

DOCMINE Productions AG
Muehlebachstrasse 164
8034 Zurich, Switzerland
+41 44 269 62 81
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