Jeremias Brunner

A documentary short documenting the trials of the long-distance relationship between Maria, a German, and her boyfriend Abdou, a Gambian.

CHAIRITY is the television report of a journalist obsessed with a savior complex, who wants to draw attention to the suffering of her protagonists. With all filmic means she tries to artificially create drama and to frame her interview partners as pitiful victims. But latest in the interviews her clichéd ideas collide with reality.