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Under one sky

by Christopher Stoeckle

Documentary | Germany | 2012 | HD | 11 min.

italian subtitles by EMM

Date
sunday 14 july
Location
ROVOLON, Az. Ag. La Costigliola
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Every year, thousands of East European laborers travel to Germany to help with the harvest. For three months of the year they set up their lives far away from their own homes. "Under one sky" (Pod Niebem) explores this tension and the laborers' resulting emotions with a sense of poetry. In the face of the foreign, a community that supports each other is crafted. Many workers meet for the first time on the fields. Often the only thing they have in common is the distance between them and the homes they've left behind. Yet it seems to be precisely this that binds the laborers together. So much so that it hurts to go back home.

Biography/Filmography:

Christopher Stoeckle was born in Karlsruhe in 1985. After a Social Year in a Therapy-Center for Drug-addicted Youths in the Czech Republic he worked for one year as a intern in different film production companys. In 2009 Christopher made an internship at the television station Arte. Since October 2010 he is studying at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg.

Direction
Christopher Stoeckle
Story
Christopher Stoeckle
Script
Christopher Stoeckle
Photography
Stefan Sick
Editing
Ina Tangermann
Music
Marc Stoeckle
Production
Sarah Heidtmann
Distribution
Filmakadmie Baden-Wuerttemberg