Ali (39), Wacha (50), Tamara (55) and Ruslan (33) are refugees. Each of the protagonists has fled from Chechnya as their lives there were in danger. As asylum-seekers in Europe they now face new problems: man vs. state machine. How do I prove that I am who I say I am? That what happened to me really did happen to me? And does anyone really care? While keeping close contact to the protagonists, the author documents their attempts to find a new place to live in Europe over the course of year, and with that, their hopes, fears and longing for a return to normality.
Kerstin Nickig was born in 1971 in Duisburg, Germany. In 1990-1997 studied Russian and German languages and literature at the Universities of Bochum, Cologne, and Moscow. In 2001-2003 studied film direction at the Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam/Germany and the National Film School in Lodz/Poland. Since 2004 he lives and works in Berlin as a freelance documentary filmmaker, founder and board member of the production company “Time Prints” in Berlin (2005).
A New Land (2004), “My Dear Muslim…” (2005), The Operation (2007), Nowhere in Europe (2009)
