Die Einsamkeit der Großstädter*innen

In the organizer's words:

Special screening as part of Schamlos Harmlos - The series for queer, sex & subculture

In the presence of director Sobo Swobodnik and lead actress/screenwriter Margarita Breitzkreiz, followed by a film discussion.

The loneliness of city dwellers - in search of communication, confrontation, attention, being seen, lust, desire, sex and love, even love in the dating age as a post-pandemic "round dance".

Karate, a forty-year-old woman without a relationship, contacts ten different women via dating apps such as Tinder, OkCupid or Badoo and meets some of them in order to escape the desert of loneliness in this big city during post-pandemic times of crisis and learns a lot about life, complex relationship structures, loneliness and herself during these very different encounters.

This film is on the trail of the omnipresent digital communication frenzy and the increasing loneliness of city dwellers. A trail that leaves loneliness in its wake, which currently seems to be on everyone's lips. While journalism is flooding readers with countless articles about the phenomenon of loneliness, television is setting up talk shows and the German government is adopting a strategy against loneliness, seeing increasing loneliness not only as a health hazard but also as a threat to democracy and believing that loneliness is a growing political problem for society as a whole, this film is dedicated to precisely this problem. In this hybrid documentary feature film, the dialogic conversations are largely taken from real chats between the communicating women.

Germany 2024; Director: Sobo Swobodnik

Actors: Margarita Breitkreiz, Sarah Sandeh, Rebecca Rudolph and others