Salt and Feathers

Successfully completed your studies - now what? Raffly already has a lucrative job offer from a large German company, but neither an apartment nor a work permit.

As a bird warden, Kilian spends seven months alone on a barrier island in the Heligoland Bight. His tasks are simple: monitoring wildlife and collecting flotsam. The rich birdlife, extreme weather and ever-changing landscape are conveyed both through imagery and a soundtrack of wind, rain and birdsong. Contact with others is rare, but the intrusion of the outside world is all the more striking. The film’s melancholic atmosphere echoes both solitude and a sense that this fragile sanctuary is deeply at risk. Beyond its precise observations, an essay on climate change and militarisation emerges.

Pia has gone to her parents' home in Katharinenheerd for the weekend to get away from the stress of university, stressful roommates, and a liaison gone awry. But instead of leaving her alone, she seamlessly continues to be harassed. Pia thinks that just because she's nice doesn't mean she's okay with everything. She decides to simply drive out, out to the Eiderstedt grassland and actually already knows exactly where to go.