Kinder

Summary

Kids

‘How do old people die again?’ – ‘Infirmity.’ – ‘Infirmity, is it a disease? – ‘No, it’s a cause of death.’

The S-Bahn train whooshes through Berlin. The filmmaker Nina Wesemann recorded various stations in the lives of Emine, Marie, Christian and Arthur over a whole year. Though their paths will likely never cross, they do have one thing in common: they are all children of the big city. They spend their free time with siblings or friends, spraying, gaming or just messing around. They play and fight, or confide in one another, on the street, in the park, at the lake, the museum or at home. Facing the world uninhibited and full of self-confidence, they try on different attitudes and behaviours. The intimate look at their everyday lives is purely observational, capturing the various moods of the young adolescents and their urban surroundings by day and by night.

Source: 69. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)