„DREISSIG” BY SIMONA KOSTOVA: ADVENTURE IN NEUKÖLLN

DREISSIG
Direc­tor Simona Kos­to­va
With Övünç Güvenisik, Pas­cal Houdus, Raha Ema­mi Khansari, Kara Schröder

The writer Övünç wakes up in his spar­tan apart­ment in the morn­ing. Dur­ing the day he meets with a friend in a pub on Son­nenallee, Berlin-Neukölln. It’s Övünç’s birth­day and he com­plains that he would have to write. His friends want to cel­e­brate with him and they are prepar­ing a birth­day sur­prise for him, but the present for him only con­sists of an emp­ty box. Övünç is very dis­ap­point­ed. Final­ly they set out and roam Neukölln nightlife togeth­er. They nev­er stay in one place for long. They dance, drink, argue, take a taxi. Final­ly they dri­ve to the dis­trict Wed­ding. We were part of their life for 24 hours.
Simona Kos­to­va accom­pa­nies young peo­ple from Neukölln in their ear­ly 30s at night in long, calm shots. She does not com­ment, she does not judge, there are no deci­sive twists and turns. And indeed it’s not easy to tell an exten­siv syn­op­sis of the movie. The cam­era only observes or it prompts the view­er to observe. This actu­al­ly cre­ates a pull if the view­er is ready to get involved with the every­day accom­pa­ni­ment, which is poor in action. We need to be curi­ous. „Dreis­sig” is Simona Kostova’s first fea­ture film. She moved from Sofia to Berlin in 2009 and start­ed to study Direct­ing in Berlin. She’s part of the movie col­lec­tive „Dem­nächst auf Video”.

★★★★
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