DRIFTER

 

Documentary, D 2008 (80 min./52 min.)
Director: Sebastian Heidinger
Production: Boekamp & Freunde in Kooperation mit dffb
World Sales: Rise and Shine/Kloos & Co. Medien

Aileen (16), Angel (23) and Daniel (25) have escaped the remnants of their families and the constraints of their villages in search of the anonymity of the big city of Berlin. Their territory is the infamous Zoo train station and its environs. This is where they prostitute themselves in order to earn money for their drug addiction; they stay at doss houses, at friends’ places, or with their regular clients. They all have dreams and desires and a vague plan for their lives, but everything remains a building site, just as the world in which they are constantly obliged to reshape their lives and themselves – a world of transitions and unstable places in between; of backstreets, deals, niches and places of transit.
We all know the story of Christiane F. and “We Children from Bahnhof Zoo”. This is a new generation. Their problems, however, have stayed the same. A most intimate dive into the normality of three young lives that pulse to the rhythm of needles, clients and shelters.

Awards:
Dialog En Perspective - Berlinale 2008

Festivals (Selection):
First Steps Award 2008, Berlinale 2008, Visions du Reel - Nyon 2008, Krakow Film Festival 2008, Babelberger Medienpreise 2008, Internationales Dokumentarfilmfest München 2008, 11th Festival of German Films, London 08, Festival of German Films, Paris 08, Festival of German Films, Prag 08, Vanvouver 08, Dok Leipzig 2007