Description
Corrugated iron shacks on the outskirts of the city. Memories of ethnically motivated violence and displacement. A new home that is not a home. "On the Life of the Uprooted" is a cinematic exploration to the lives of internally displaced people in Ethiopia. In poetic images, intense interviews and poems, the life situation of the inhabitants of a refugee camp becomes tangible: the massacre that happened to them. Arriving in a strange place. The conflicts with their new neighbors. Between resignation and despair, the strength with which people defend their dignity and resist ethnic conflicts also becomes clear.
Director
Raphael Schanz, Philipp Seifert
Raphael Schanz is a documentary film director and producer based in Berlin. After studying communication and social sciences in Erfurt, Berlin and Jerusalem, he studied documentary film directing at the filmArche in Berlin. He is co-founder of the production company panther reh and has directed several documentary short films.
