Overview

What does it mean to live in a neighborhood? What does the place where you live mean to you? Who lives next-door? In the summer of 2017, 140 people who live on and around Rosa-Luxemburg Platz in Berlin's 'Mitte' district were interviewed. These conversations were turned into a series of short films that provide personal insights into diverse lives. Behind each door there's a different story: long-standing Mitte dwellers, founders of start-ups, centenarians, globetrotters, those pining for the old East Germany, and students. There are people who have lived here for two months or sixty years; people who grew up in what used to be East or West Germany, in Latin America, Russia, or former Yugoslavia. A neighborhood full of diversity and contradictions. Some call it their home, others just the place they live, while still others think of it as a real neighborhood or 'kiez'. And yet, memories and emotions associated with this place connect them all as neighbors.

1. Lili Duchow

   Director

2. Matthias Jochmann

   Director

3. Christophe Knoch

   Director

4. Ana Hupe

   Director

5. Fritzie Benesch

   Director

6. Lisann Behm

   Director

7. Kai Ehlers

   Director

8. Yannick Geske

   Director

9. Hannah Ugé

   Director

10. Helena Kühnemann

    Director

11. Laura Wiegand

    Director

12. Linda Udre

    Director

13. Thomas Kowalski

    Director

14. Marlon Weber

    Director

15. Yasmin El Yassini

    Director

16. Anne Retzlaff

    Director

17. Kathrin Unger

    Director

18. Donata Schmidt-Werthern

    Director

19. Leon Wienhold

    Director

20. Carlotta-Marie Romano

    Director

21. Julie Kuschel

    Director

22. Simón Lobos

    Director

23. Julius Weigel

    Director

24. Hannes Raphael Beere

    Director