Betonklotz 2000

In the organizer's words:

you promised me a city, you promised me a life

A city within a city. The whole of life in one place, built up storey by storey. The high-rise block. How to deal with it when the dream of utopia has long since been shattered? When the place you long for is far away from your own home?

The KINDER VOM BLOCK, the EINANDER FREMDEN and the KLOTZKINDER address these questions. Even though their stories couldn't be more diverse and their biographies couldn't be more different, they all have one thing in common: they share a home. Many also share alienation, be it in the family, because the mother doesn't understand anything after all, or in friendships, when the life plan now looks completely different from what was originally planned.

To what extent is this home still a companion in life? Or is it only a temporary place anyway?

Either way, it always depends on the perspective. The residents of this block confront social inequality without denying it, address isolation without living it. In addition to living past each other, friendship and solidarity and the shared dream of a hopeful future prevail here alongside a great deal of honesty.

So much for dreary: Bonjour Tristesse!