Documentary

MID SEASON

  • The Last of Us Protagonists
  • Young Woman Working in a Hotel Restaurant
  • Young Woman working in a Terrace Restaurant
  • Young Woman Dancing and Laughing in a Club
  • Young Man working in Restaurant Kitchen
  • Young Man working in a Restaurant
  • Young Man working in a Hotel Restaurant
  • Young Man Sitting on Beach Baltic Sea
  • Tourists at the Baltic Sea Terrace

»Shall I stay or shall I go?« This is the question that the youth of East Pomerania ask themselves as they sway between departure and attachment to their homeland, between pragmatism and diffuse nostalgia. They live in a region that is disintegrating into a touristic coastal strip with a high gloss fasade and a desolate, slowly bleeding hinterland. MID SEASON allows four trainees the space to become the protagonist, places them in a visually staged situation related to their living circumstances and asks the question: How does one start a life in a place marked by such diverging social conditions?

Credits

Author & Director: Tina Tripp
Cinematography: Florian Lampersberger, Christian Trieloff
Editor: Maja Tennstedt
Composer: Samon Kawamura
Producer: Nadja Smith, Gregor Streiber, Friedemann Hottenbacher
Commissioning Editor: Christian Cloos
Produced by: inselfilm produktion
In co-production with: ZDF – Kleines Fernsehspiel
Funded by: Additional Film Fund Mecklenburg Vorpommern 2019 and Film Fund MV
Supported by: Stiftung Menschenwürde und Arbeitswelt
Presented at: DOK.forum Marketplace 2018

Technical Details

Running time: 102 min
Year of Completion: 2022
Country of Production: Germany