Julia Kovalenko

A snack bar owner smokes with his Muslim neighbor in the stairwell of their apartment building at night. Her husband is his good friend. They draw closer to one another as the nights go on and look out over the city to the dark satellites, the brutalist concrete buildings on the outskirts of the city - relics of the GDR past. A security guard watches over Objekt 95, a satellite town with a residential complex which many foreigners call home. While on patrol at night, he gets to know a young Ukrainian woman who fled her home country when the war broke out. He wants to protect her, while his friend, the “old security guard”, radios to him from an abandoned Russian barrack night after night. A woman from the train cleaning service drinks in a train station bar after her night shift. There, she meets a hairdresser. The two of them become friends and spend many nights together in the station. Every night, her desire grows even greater for this woman who is exactly as lonely as she is.

Her self-chosen solitude in the thick forest comes to a sudden end for Noé, when she finds the broken body of a female android. While she slowly approaches the mechanic woman, Noé’s past is revealed and brings up questions about how alike she and the android can become.

Бенни – хрупкая на вид малышка, наделённая безграничной энергией. Она «разрушительница системы». Так называют детей, которые нарушают все мыслимые правила, не принимают никакой организации и проскальзывают сквозь трещины в немецкой системе социальной защиты детей. Куда бы ни определяли 9-летнюю девочку, через некоторое время её снова выгоняют. Ей только того и надо, потому что больше всего она хочет жить с мамой – женщиной, которая совершенно неспособна справляться с непредсказуемыми выходками дочери.

Максимилиан популярный психотерапевт, он справляется со своими заботами и проблемами, а также помогает пациентам.

An attempt to question human gaze upon nature, recognize subjectivity of a tree and approach its radical otherness. Film looks into the case of fifteen "winners" of the National Trees of Ukraine competition and explores the image of a tree as reflected in the language of legislation, journalism and poetry.