As part of the LETsDOK documentary film days, we will be showing ZWISCHENSAISON by Tina Tripp on 13 September followed by a talk with the director.

'Stay or go?' This question makes young people in Ostvorpommern vacillate between departure and attachment to home, pragmatism and diffuse longings. They live in a country that is disintegrating into a booming, touristy coastal strip with shiny facades and a hinterland that is desolate in places. Max, Maria, Long and Jakob are trainees in the catering trade on the island of Usedom. Just as their place of work, the hotel, is a transitory place, so the young people are in a transitory phase of life. Zwischensaison accompanies the protagonists through their three years of apprenticeship, in the middle of which the Corona crisis intrudes and confronts the young people with additional challenges in their fragile search for their own path. In a visually staged form, the film relates the protagonists to their living spaces and poses the question: where to set off into life when place and time bring with them all kinds of constraints and restrictions.