Lichtenberg and Drifter

Wed 27.04.
20:00

Cinema

Arsenal 1

Lichtenberg

A friendship between two adolescents whose trust is put to the test. Shot and developed with non-professional actors, this fiction short explores the social spaces of those growing up on the edge of Berlin.

Drifter

In the rhythmic up and down of the telephone wires that accompany the platforms, dreary meadows with gray pockets of snow drift across the screen. With this view from the moving train, Aileen, the female protagonist of Sebastian Heidinger’s documentary game, disappears from Berlin’s Zoo Station. Angel and Daniel are left behind and remain in the frame, two young men who are connected to Aileen in very different ways across the sparse narrative. What begins as a love triangle with possible complications ends up as an ensemble of three people that complement one another and whose lives and actions are centered around Zoo Station and its immediate surroundings. It’s about making money, about prostitution and those who indulge in it, about finding somewhere to stay for the night, about drugs. The outrageous tenderness of self-deprecation, the crazy intelligence of the street, the sense of solace jeopardized by different relationships become visible in the clearest and smallest possible forms. The film follows its characters by stubbornly restricting itself to what they themselves experience. (nw)