WO LANG? Berlin, Märkisches Viertel.

© 2008, A film by MAX KERKHOFF, 44MIN

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A glimpse into the lives of disillusioned teenagers in the Märkisches Viertel, a neighborhood on Berlin’s outskirts: summer days revolving around beer, junk food and PlayStation. When they’re not hanging out around the local shopping mall, they mark time lounging in Kevin’s living room while his parents are gone for the summer. Alcohol is almost always involved, and often the police or local security. Disputes with neighbors, problems with crime, violence and graffiti are frequent themes, although unlike Kevin, most of them have never been arrested. Hard up for money, they hardly leave the neighborhood – which appears to be the hub of their existence. Their prospects are rather dim. What does the future have in store for them?

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Kevin und seine Freunde verbringen den Sommer in ihrem Viertel, dem Märkischen Viertel, einem Berliner Außenbezirk. Ihr Alltag wiederholt sich. Zwischen Tiefkühlpizza, Billigbier und Playstation dominieren Konflikte ihren Sommer. Konflikte mit den Nachbarn, dem Sicherheitsdienst, den Eltern, der Polizei, und Konflikte mit sich selbst. An der Schwelle zum Erwachsenwerden stellt sich für die Freunde die Frage: Wo lang? 






FESTIVALS AND BROADCASTS:

9th Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival 2008

Winner DOKLeipzig Doku-Clip (Jugendmedienfestival Berlin 2009)

Travelling GIEFF, (Wellington, New Zealand)

Worldfilm 2009 (Tartu, Estonia)

Days of Ethnographic Film 2009 (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Werkstatt Junger Filmer 2009 (Wiesbaden, Germany)

Pre-selection Deutscher Nachwuchsfilmpreis 2009

Broadcast on TV / Estonia: ETV2, 2009

Broadcast on TV / Germany: AG DOK / Alex Berlin, 2011

ARCH+ Feature MV, Berlin 2012

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Director, camera, editor MAX KERKHOFF

Sound, additional photography NICOLAS RÖSENER

Counseling & equipment MARCIN GLOWACKI

Graphics VINZENT BRITZ

Color grading JANNIS MAYR

Sound mastering JORMA MARQUARDT

Press NORA-VANESSA WOHLERT

Subtitles CATHERINE KERKHOFF-SAXON

HDV, 44MIN

© 2008, Berlin, DE