Unannounced, Aziza is once again standing in her room – internship, Portugal, everything canceled. But her room is occupied. Her mother, Trixi, has rented it out. Zach lives there now, a twenty-something from New Zealand, who came to Germany on a one-way ticket. Starting from this situation, the film develops an almost documentary-style portrait of a Kreuzberg ‘situation’: everything is readily available, time, people, summer, streets. And in the end a crash, the film itself: ‘for nothing’?
Direction
Geene blurs fiction and documentary until you forget which is which.
Cinematography
Kreuzberg streets shot like they're breathing.
Director
Stephan Geene
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Geene cast mostly non-professionals and rewrote scenes daily based on their actual lives, making the 'situation' feel accidentally real.
The film captures pre-gentrification Kreuzberg when cheap rooms and aimless summers were still possible for broke internationals.
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