Darío Aguirre. Olaf Scholz. The letter that the writer and Director carries in his half of the Film from A to B, is an invitation to become German. With two exchanges of actions of the former First mayor of Hamburg between 2011 and 2017, more than 150 000 immigrants a cover letter, were entitled to naturalization. Aguirre, the love 15 years ago, led from Ecuador to Germany, is one of them. In his documentary film “In the Land of my children” is the application to the occasion for a careful how ironic Reflection on belonging and identity.
The foreigners authority is to live in Aguirres, as well as in his relationship with Stephanie, a fixed instance. After four expired passports, and ten different Visa, he is already sitting again on the pesky papers. Each form, each provider signature, every authorities confirm response to him: “I am an alien”. This should change the Status from one day to the other, it registers with a mixture of anticipation, pragmatism and disbelief. Even as he keeps the celebrations in the town hall of Hamburg, the certificate of naturalization in the hands, he asks Scholz with a slight Schalk: “does that Mean I am now no more foreigners?”
In interviews, he explores the question of what makes a home and what concessions are associated with the “Arrive”. Mariuxi, likewise from Ecuador-born girlfriend, remembers that Darío Aguirre had ceased in Germany, a radical, to listen to Latin American music. She says a sentence that is highlighted in the Film always resonates, and confirmed, as well as: “Integration adjustment”.
Cultural mentalities formulate day-to-day moments
The Humor is often woven with a melancholy tone of voice. In an animated sequence, from memory hingetuscht like a watercolor painting, a recapitulation of the film-maker of his time of arrival in Germany: the Overpowering light of the completely incomprehensible language, the many rules. In an interview with the parents-in-law in Zittau, where Aguirre lived until his move to Hamburg, will speak for the first Time between green plants and BRIC-a-brac open-hearted about the “difficult year”. Stephanie’s father, especially the artists in Darío was strange. Your mother says: “We have just spoken of too little.”
animation sequences, excerpts from Aguirres Video and performance work, Home-Movie Material and the precisely composed images of the camera wife Helena Wittmann connect to an image, the effect is similar to that of how Aguirres German-Latin American life. With a beautiful Casualness you see him and Stephanie again and again when cooking (they speak Spanish to each other). In the everyday moments of cultural mentalities: here is the order of the bins formulate, there’s a note that calls for the removal of a Bicycle in a Laundry drying area.
Between application and naturalization passes some of the time, Darío and Stephanie are now parents. The attempt of the father to Germany to invite designed for the cabaret piece: Aguirre must-have for the visa and the guarantee again in the foreigners ‘ authority.
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