German Competition Dokumentary Film 1

Thinking about thwarted migration, exploitative systems, the threadbare glamour of mass tourism in lockdown. Cruise ships lie in the harbour, film footage fades.

Punta, a moustachioed Maltese, weaves a traditional fish trap. As always, waves crash on the rocks, but the times when you could earn a living by fishing here are long gone.

Family photos. A woman’s face is scratched out or overpainted. Fragmentary descriptions of the mother’s sudden outbursts are added. Approaching the trauma of an experience of violence.

Pregnancy – loaded with media clichés and optimisation measures. Each deviation from the “normal course” is suppressed. And what happens when things turn out differently?

This cheerful animated collage recalls the first Interflug flight to Majorca in spring 1990. The sea may shine ever so blue, the GDR travellers remain mere onlookers in this holiday paradise.