Q&A with director Ellen Rudnitzki

• DE 2024
• 86 min
• Director: Ellen Rudnitzki
• FSK: from 0 years

25-year-old DJ Anna immerses herself in the life of her grandmother, the now 73-year-old photographer Ingrid Bahss, who ran a private gallery with her husband in the GDR, was expelled as an enemy of the state in 1983, found a new home in Cologne, returned and still critically examines both worlds today. The reality of grandma's life unfolds through the eyes of her granddaughter.

The basses are thumping in the Pirate rehearsal studios in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district. Three young women at the mixing desk: Anna, Miri and Katja. Their goal: to conquer the still male-dominated DJ world.Anna, a 25-year-old computer science student, has lived in Berlin for two years. A city of extremes, as she says, where she sometimes feels lonely: "when nobody really listens anymore, when everyone does their own thing". And when Anna has something on her mind, she talks to her grandmother, 73-year-old photographer Ingrid Bahß. Far away from bustling Berlin, she immerses herself in Ingrid's apartment in Cologne's Südstadt district, crammed with books, pictures and photos, lots of photos, evidence of an exciting life, full of crises and upheavals. A world that Anna wants to explore. Together they embark on a journey to the stations of Ingrid's life: the former GDR, which she was forced to leave, the initially hated West, her birthplace in the East, where her grandmother's activities are once again met with resistance. There are repeated clashes between young and old, East and West.