Die Pfütze (The Puddle) 2018
Lebanon
Documentary
Director: Florian Hubertus
A cabaret performance and a song from Klaus Mann’s novel “The Pious Dance” serve as a starting point to investigate similarities of a youth generation ridden by war, conflict and instability. By reinterpreting this scene and transferring it to the present though workshops, the film wants to explore similarities between then and now, here and there. Present life, possibilities, home, future, gender roles, expression of the self, hedonism: What do these words and concepts mean to a contemporary and extraordinary young society? Somewhere between disillusionment, the struggle of high living costs, work, cross-generational conflicts and the will of self-expression and freedom, a “youth without pathos” (Mann) tries to explore its own relevancy and strength. Through the different workshops that will help create the form of the project, it wants to provoke a confrontation with these issues and explore similarities between Mann’s portrayed past and the Lebanese present.
