This screening presented with the support of the Goethe-Institut
Writer-Director: Angela Schanelec, Germany, 2016, 81 min., German and English with English subtitles. Starring: Miriam Jakob, Thorbjörn Björnsson, Maren Eggert, Phil Hayes
Greece, 1984. While singing in the streets to finance their holidays, Kenneth (Björnsson) a young Englishman, and Theres (Jakob), a German girl meet and ultimately fall in love. Just as the new relationship begins, Kenneth learns that his mother had an accident, he hastily returns home, leaving Theres behind. Later, starting to realize how much he needs her, he fails in his attempt to win her back.
30 years later, in Berlin. Ariane, a 40-year-old TV actress, leaves her husband, a successful anthropologist, after a marital crisis. After moving into an apartment near the main station, Ariane’s husband starts seeing a homeless man outside his window; It is Kenneth, who does not know that Theres now also lives in Berlin.
Working again with master Cinematographer Reinhold Vorschneider, Schanelec tells the somewhat intertwined stories of two separate couples who each experience pain and loss in their own individual realties.
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