Films d'écoles européens Competition 2021

I Want to Return Return Return

Elsa Rosengren

Germany

2020 Fiction 32 min

It is a late-summer morning in Wrangelkiez, Berlin. Elpi, a young Greek woman, receives a phone call from a long-lost friend. As the day progresses, Elpi's apprehensive wait for the anticipated reunion becomes entangled with fragments of the lives of other neighbourhood locals. We hear of a childhood spent at a tobacco farm in Kentucky, of an exceptional day in an otherwise mundane job, of the decade-long wait for the infamously delayed Berlin Brandenburg Airport to open. In different ways, the accounts all speak of the passing of time - of long-gone pasts, monotonous presents, and on-hold futures. In the neighbourhood, there is a lingering feeling of wanting to get back to something. But to where, to what, and to whom?

With : Elpiniki Saranti, Maria Kalach, Ramses Komuro Boubaker, Robert Hamill, Stefan Keuneke, Katarzyna Pacura, Ellen Edmar, Angelika Mertens
Screenplay : Elsa Rosengren
Image : Giulia Schelhas
Sound : Frank Behnke
Editing : Esteban Alfaro, Elsa Rosengren

Production : DFFB - Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin
Distribution: DFFB - Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin
Contact : DFFB - Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Elsa Rosengren was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1989. After working at sea in her early 20s, she started making films while attending Rhode Island School of Design, RI, USA. Elsa graduated from the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin in 2020. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.