Laura Engelhardt

A young Ukrainian man realizes his dream of working aboard a ship cargo ship. The outbreak of war in his country and the dangers on board however, turn his job and his path of growth into a harsh test.

Ossi Viola and Lo Selbo have bet it all on one card: as ITACA they make Italo pop music for the 21st century. Their big dream: performing at the music festival in San Remo. An Italian tour could bring them to the next level. The days go by acrimoniously in rundown roadhouses; at night the duo plays dives along the Italian rustbelt. Not quite their image of bella Italia. Suddenly, this gamble seems completely insane. A 9 to 5 life would be so much easier. The crisis culminates when an unwelcome hitchhiker stumbles into their universe. As the dream threatens to shatter, the adventure begins.

After an argument with his mother, 12-year-old Dan, who suffers from scoliosis, seeks love and intimacy from 17-year-old Anna, who is supposed to look after him. While his mother, who works for a security company, is on the night shift, Dan and Anna cross set boundaries.

2034 – The moon is moving towards the earth. The exact time as much as the consequences of the impact are unknown. Two different groups of teenagers are meeting each other on one of the last days on earth. What happens then has everything and nothing to do with the approaching moon.

"Notes from the Neighbourhood" observes, over the course of two years, an inner courtyard in Berlin, in which investors erect a new residential building for resale. As the construction progresses, a woman narrates the ups and downs of her contrary life, and the stagnation of her body.