Maryam Zaree is a German stage and screen actress, writer and filmmaker.
Undine is a historian and tour guide at the Berlin City Museum specializing in urban development, while Christoph is an industrial diver. Linked by a love of the water, the two form an intense bond, which can only do so much to help Undine overcome the considerable baggage of her former affair.
Wherever 9-year-old Benni ends up, she is expelled. She has become what child protection services call a “system crasher.” But she is not looking to change her ways, and has one goal: go back home to her mother. When anger management trainer Micha is hired to help, suddenly there is hope.
Based in Neukölln, Berlin Toni manages the daily business of dealing with the Arabic gangs and ends up wanting to leave his old life behind for his family, but as expected, its never that simple.
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A family of four live in a wrecking yard in the suburbs of Tehran. Mother and father both work at the yard, dismantling and wrecking old cars. Nima and his younger sister Tara spend their time playing Formula 1 in the scrap heaps, practicing for imaginary careers as race car drivers. It is up to Nima to navigate and explain the complications of the grown-up world to Tara. He is at the wheel.
Siavash, a 6-year-old, won a painting award, and now his parents analyze his TV interview about a wall-less home in the painting. Everyone's searching for an explanation, but none are correct.
Video art by George Barber.