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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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Germany
2023

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)

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