As with many things, the question of what home is seems to come increasingly into people’s focus precisely when it seems lost. All over the world, we are dealing with political situations that are leading to millions of people losing their homeland. People protest for their homeland, they leave their countries, they flee from war and poverty and in most cases it is about nothing less than their survival. The situation is not new, worldwide the history of people has always been marked by oppression, war, displacement and loss of homeland.

What makes the situation in the Ukraine war so special for us Europeans is the realization that for many years we have succumbed to the fallacy of a civilized world that protects us from criminally rubbed violence, torture, death and destruction.

The film project is driven by people who look at the question from different cultural contexts and with culturally different perspectives: What is home and what do we humans lose when we speak of leaving home?

This film is not only intended to observe the special situation of people at war. Rather, the filmmakers also want to explore the question of what we humans seek as a purpose in life in today’s increasingly economically driven world, what we strive for, and what losses affect us and how.

The term “home” seems to us to be too much of an unquestioned and at the same time extremely diffuse placeholder for about what every human being feels inside.

The shots so far show that the directors give the viewer the necessary time to empathize with the personal contexts of our protagonists. Long shots are to interweave with experimental elements. In this way, which I very much welcome, the viewer is also encouraged to look inside himself and not just follow the camera’s observation.