“Children”: what it’s Like in Berlin, grow up

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Nina Wesemann immersed in the movie “kids” with your camera deep into the carefree world of ten-year-old girls and boys from Berlin. And quickly the question: How can adults be so different?

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The Film “children” by Nina Wesemann

“Hey, I Lucky block YouTuber played the Lucky Block Mod. And you already know: No Fantasia-armor with Fantasia Lucky block and there was no Troll Lucky block”, reported by Arthur and his friend applied. Arthur is ten years old and running with his blue headphones on his head next to his friend.

For a year, Nina Wesemann Arthur, Emine, Christian and Marie with the camera has accompanied and a Film made of it. If you are listening to them, one gets sometimes the impression that you come from another star.

The Film brings them together, but actually the kids would probably never met. They come from different districts of Berlin: Marie lives in a house settlement with neatly cut evergreen hedges, paved walkways and driveways on the outskirts of the city. Emine feels in the yellow of Berlin’s Railways and trains of self-conscious new music video Moves.

Emine with her Girlfriends

Then wäre the nuclear war

It is, as Marie abandoned the demolition of houses roams, Christian calmly moves a pack of Sushi on the river Spree, and Emine accurately in art class, a Igloo with shades of blue pictures. The world’s not going to happen, nevertheless, quite unnoticed past them.

It is hilarious and touching at the same time, if the ten-year-old Arthur his six-year-old sister Juno a short introduction to TRANS-Atlantic tables policy, as he explained, that Donald Trump wants to start his opinion, a nuclear war “theoretically”. And that he wanted to.

Juno: “Why?

Arthur: “Because then the earth can really be hurt.”

Juno: “And you?”

Arthur: “The earth will then be destroyed.”

Juno, startled: “Oh, no! When will destroyed the earth?”

Arthur: “you don’t know.”

Juno: “I don’t want to die.”

Arthur: “It must not be that we die, but it can be good, in theory.”

Juno: “What theoretically means?”

Arthur: “Theoretically, it means ‘maybe’.”

Then Arthur zerschnibbelt with the kitchen scissors, the Image of a USA flag.

The death figures of the children

Death and war – these are the serious sides to Shine through in the image of the magic of Childhood, the paints Wesemann in your movie and relaxed, again and again. This was also with her at the age of ten similar, says Wesemann in the DW-Interview: “I had to have this questions in mind, the theme of death. I have asked myself: How do you die? When, why, and what to do after this?”

Sometimes it is in the “children’s” food for thought

You can see that these issues move, the young protagonist. However, you will find far away from the place, what is the movie from the realities of their lives. Other unpleasant sides of Childhood saves Wesemann: Neither performance pressure at school, conflicts with parents, illnesses, or family problems play a role. It breaks out between Arthur and his siblings to be a dispute over the Spaghetti and Christian’s cover of “not in the mood to warp” when he’s sprayed with his cool, older brothers, his first Graffiti on the wall. Overall, however, everything is conciliatory peaceful. Since s is knowing’, almost a bit of a heavy heart, that this supposedly carefree phase of life of the children soon.

Wesemann describes it this way: “one leg you are still in the Childhood and life total. And with the other leg else starts something, and you step through into another world.”

No parents far and wide

In the Film there is no Narration; nothing is classified, or comments. The camera, which is also led by Nina Wesemann, accompanied the four is always at eye level. But in the movie inter the children not to interact with her. As a spectator you get the impression that it would be easy to go unnoticed among them and can be unobserved listen, if you like guitars, the first guitar chords of Ed Sheeran, and try how far you can roll a roll of duct tape, when you throw it, held one end out the window.

The Director Nina Wesemann has accompanied the children for a year

There were no adults are to be seen far and wide, no one is reprimanded, rebuked, or scolded. After 77 minutes of the movie you almost forget that there are still adults in the world.

With the completion of the film to the Berlinale

Wesemann has managed the same with her graduation film at the University of television and Film Munich has produced, on the international film festival Berlinale. At the Premiere in the Generation section Emine, Marie, Christian and Arthur and their friends met for the first Time. “I’ve often wondered,as I lead you together and how this first Meeting looks like,” says Wesemann. A certain amount of distance, and slight skepticism had been there, she commented with a Smile. But it is also a kind of basic sympathy.

On the red carpet of the Berlinale Marie (2. v. l.), Christian (3. v. l.), Arthur (4. v. l.) and Emine (right) for the first Time

What you have to say about the movie, if you have outgrown this wonderful free world of the child, one in Berlin? “So, I think, in two years, you will find it very embarrassing. And I hope that you will be happy again; that there is such a thing as a nice document of that time.”