BERLIN BYTCH LOVE

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BERLIN BYTCH LOVE
Director: Heiko Aufdermauer, Johannes Girke
Germany 2023, 86 min., OV German, Blu-ray projection

Summer in Berlin. Sophie (15) and Dominik (17) have been living on the streets around Görlitzer Park for six months. They sleep in doorways, collect bottles - and love each other as unconditionally and absolutely as teenagers do. If they are separated for even a moment, disaster strikes. Sophie has been reported as "missing" by her father - so they have no chance of getting help from the state. They sell postcards, collect bottles and "scrounge" a few cents. They live an insecure, dangerous but free life in the midst of society and yet beyond it. In October, Sophie is four months pregnant and winter is on the horizon. At the same time, a court date looms: Dominik has to answer for several crimes committed in recent years. Years in prison loom.

In the summer of 2018, filmmakers Heiko Aufdermauer and Johannes Girke decided to document a young couple (aged 15 and 17) living on the streets around Berlin's Görlitzer Park over an extended period of time. The aim was to create an intimate and non-judgmental filmic insight into the everyday lives of young people who live among us, far from safety, education and security - and yet are often invisible. Over a period of two years, they accompanied the two on their journey from the streets to their own apartment near Eberswalde. A documentary, puristically edited like a feature film.

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