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German Competition Documentary Film 2023
Filmstill The Wind Is Taking Them
The Wind Is Taking Them
Ann Carolin Renninger
The big bang, tardigrades, humanity as a dying breed: A child researcher on a farm by the Baltic Sea has some astonishing thoughts about these things – and his curiosity about the present is infectious.
Filmstill The Wind Is Taking Them
Filmstill The Wind Is Taking Them
Filmstill The Wind Is Taking Them

The Wind Is Taking Them

Der Wind nimmt die mit
Ann Carolin Renninger
German Competition Documentary Film 2023
Documentary Film
Germany
2023
25 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English

It is a stroke of luck when a film manages to simply observe the flow of life and almost casually show us the miracles found in life’s corners. Ann Carolin Renninger approaches people and things with great serenity and a palpable joy of searching for and finding images.

Rovin lives on a remote farm on the Baltic Sea and explores his surroundings with insatiable curiosity. He is interested in the universe, planets, unknown creatures – and in tardigrades, those tiny multicellular organisms that look like dust bags on legs and are real survival artists. Quite unlike humans, as Rovin points out, because the latter are sure to die out one day. He sees this as a logical fact, not a threat. And when you open yourself up to the grainy, earthy images and the calm narrative, you eventually stop wondering, too, why that should be a problem. After all, as long as the wind blows through the trees and scatters the tardigrades, everything is in good order. In addition to the captivatingly alert boy, Renninger meets Marie, who knows everything about rocks, and Christopher, who decorates a place with these rocks. They are all on a quest and every day find a piece of what one cannot hold onto: the present.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Ann Carolin Renninger
Cinematographer
Ann Carolin Renninger, René Frölke
Editor
Ann Carolin Renninger
Producer
Ann Carolin Renninger
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Zane Zlemesa, Miro Denck