Lena Gorelik – Wer wir sind

Who we are: A girl travels to Germany with her parents, her grandmother and her brother, to freedom. What she leaves behind is her beloved dog Asta, the fairytale phone number and almost everything that connects her with Djedushka, grandpa – ultimately her childhood. In the west, the eleven-year-old realizes that she is now someone else and “the stranger”. A refugee child in a self-tailored parka. The girl pronounces the unfamiliar German words so funny. The others laugh. It’s also difficult for the parents, their Russian nostalgia grows in the longing west; and the proud grandmother who once ran a business is simply an old woman here. The ideas of what freedom is, what it allows, differ more and more between parents and daughter.

Moderation: Libuse Cerna