
Keywords
- Next Generation: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
- Sooner Europe Exclusives: Stories that Matter
- Sooner Exclusives
- immigration
- social inequality
- work
Actors
- Silvana Miihai
- Florentina Tilea
- Petre Valentin Dumitru
Director
- Vanessa Gunesch
Shorts
18min
16+
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Two caregivers go to a client's empty beach house on the Italian coast. There, work and leisure become blurred.
Two caregivers go to a client's empty beach house on the Italian coast. There, work and leisure become blurred.
Set in the deserted off-season on the Italian coast, caregivers Anca and Zoya meet at a bus stop shortly before returning home and decide to visit a client's abandoned beach house. A brief vacation turns into a moment of solidarity and tenderness that challenges the structural norms that govern their daily lives.
“The discourse on the inner-European class question has never been more present and at the same time more repressed. As a German-Romanian, I encounter these socio-economic conditions every day: my aunt who worked as a nurse abroad, the Romanian parcel carrier, my cousin who earns piecework wages in an asparagus field. I KNEW YOU WERE MY KIND observes two workers navigating our globalized world and what happens when they pay themselves.” (Director's commentary by Vanessa Gunesch)