After years apart, a couple returns to Vienna. The film observes their struggle to build a life together in the midst of everyday life, odd jobs, bureaucracy and exclusion. The result is a moving portrait of love, pain and the hope of belonging. It is the quiet and haunting story of a couple who defy the odds and find the courage to fight for a home. Viktoria is Austrian, Siaka is Gambian.
DIRECTOR
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Ivette Löcker
She makes the invisible visible and gives their stories a stage. Ivette Löcker studied Slavic Studies, Eastern European History and Sociology in Vienna before working as an assistant director and production manager for documentary films since 1998.
Time and again she turns her and our gaze to Eastern Europe. To Lake Baikal in MARINA UND SASCHA, KOHLESCHIFFER (2008), to Saint Petersburg in WENN ES BLENDET, ÖFFEN SIE DIE AUGEN (2014) and to Ukraine in ANJA UND SERJOSCHA (2018). The stories also tell of interpersonal dependencies, attachments and individual bonds. Ivette Löcker lives and works in Berlin.
