Berliner Tagebuch

Where I am I dont want to stay I want to stay where Ive never been Filmmaker Rosemarie Blank was born in Berlin but has lived in various other places in the world After returning to her native city she wondered what its like for other people to live outside their motherland In this diary she interviews people whom she literally met in the street her Kurdish newsvendor who apart from his busy trade has a second job with the German railways a Lebanese hairdresser a Turkish furniture seller They talk about melancholy longing the struggle for existence and against discrimination and they show how they lead their daily life The encounters are larded with observing shots of multicultural Berlin particularly where diversity is most visible the subway