“Dear diary, my heart is in pain. I want it to stop. But it won’t. It never will. Only if it stops beating all together. I am so ashamed.”
Diary entries and old VHS recordings, once mute witnesses of violence, speak out today and contribute to a family kaleidoscope in which the wish for a normal family becomes painfully clear when we take off to our first family holiday.
Racism
Havarie
On 14.9.2012 at 2:56 p.m., the cruise ship “Adventure of the Seas” reported the sighting of a damaged rubber dinghy with 13 people on board to the Spanish sea rescue service. A YouTube clip combined with biographical scenes create a choreography that reflects the past, present and future of the travellers on the Mediterranean Sea.
The freedom last but one
The blue sky arching above the young boy in Auschwitz-Birkenau is his refuge. And so it remains. In his diaries, survivor Otto Dov Kulka crafts landscapes. The film mirrors them.
Depth of field
With its image axis repeatedly tilting and tipping out of frame, DEPTH OF FIELD examines three places in the German city of Nuremberg haunted by and struggling against the memory of racist murders committed there by a far-right terrorist group between 2000 and 2005.
Cloud Making Machine
Firas, Jallow and Batoul just arrived in Berlin. They meet one another in a theater group. Through video letters, they reveal their deepest emotions to their families and friends back in their war-torn or poverty-stricken home countries.