The search for a place, a home, that one feels safe in, starts for many young people with a bunch of questions. Questions that put societal norms to the test, reveal deep inner conflicts of one’s family, or explore the effects political tensions have on social structures and one’s own path. What does the term “home” mean when you don’t feel welcome there, or when that place is even destroyed? Three young filmmakers explore ways to communicate between the generations and show with different means, what the search for a safe haven means. (Matti Ullrich)
As a young Chinese filmmaker returns to his hometown in search for himself, a long due conversation with his mother leads the two of them to a quest for acceptance and love.… >>>
"I think I have to start differently", says the father and starts over. The world isn't always beautiful, says the mother. Marian Mayland interrogates her own childhood, the parents and her siblings: the atomic threat of the late Cold-War, the family business, mental illness in the family, things that remained unsaid. Mayland misses her childhood home in fragmentary shots: surfaces and corners of rooms, carrier of readable and unreadable history. The nearby surface mining offers a drastic image of sedimentation. Here, cinema is not a means of creating a visible order in a family structure, but of making the tangle of entanglements visible in its complexity.… >>>
Lebanon, August 2020. The explosion in the Beirut harbor compels Yasmeen and her father to face the unspoken truths of their past. A search for reconstruction that will redefine their relation to violence and to the troubled history of their country.… >>>