Producer
We’re travelling from luxury kitchen to luxury kitchen with Agnes, from Bergisch Gladbach via Barcelona to the Faroe Islands. The cook’s luggage always includes her backpack containing various knives, cleavers and tweezers. The camera watches over the inquisitive young woman’s shoulder as delicacies are being prepared. Our mouths water. At the same time, we get insights into the different ways of running a restaurant. It’s about team spirit and equality at the stove.
Producer
Russian-born director Aleksey Lapin travels back to his relatives’ home village near the Ukrainian border, where he himself used to spend every summer. The film crew introduce themselves at a specially organized musical event, claiming that they have come to cast a historical film that is to be set in the village. What follows is a charming, semi-fictional documentary by and with the village community.
Producer
Rebels without a cause in a globalized world. Kevin, David and Dominik, three troubled teenagers who were deemed too difficult to be “re-educated” at home, are shipped off to Romania by the German authorities. There, they live with local families while hoping to go back to Germany as soon as possible. Exiled from their previous lives and country, they try to adapt as well as possible to their new environment.
Producer
How are you using my memories?
What programs will replace us?
Where is my data?
At a bank in the year 2051
First Assistant Camera
Luisa returns to her parents' home when her father becomes bedridden. She's expected to help her mother deal with the drudgery of caring for him, but their relationship is tense and the physical contact with the man proves to be unpleasant for her. In quiet moments she remembers scenes from her childhood Long repressed and forgotten memories force their way back into the present, until a final realization brings a family secret to light.
Director of Photography
It is bleak. There is this gray building on a rainy day, where anyone´s windows is kept closed. Overlooking the courtyard a boy is sitting on his windowsill. He is playing with a mirrored-glass marble. It is enjoyable to watch, as well as for this other child, standing at its opened window across the courtyard. The boy spins his marble again and again and the other childs interest for the marble is growing minute by minute. Suddenly something happens... It is a short film about observing a moment and following its interests.
