Sen­ti­men­tal Sto­ries

A girl waits for her boyfriend, a worker in the harbour. In the locker room a worker confides in his colleague about his unhappy marriage. But there's more to their relationship than advice giving. At the end of his shift a young man takes a shower in the washroom of the port and hurries to meet his girlfriend in the cantine. It's his last day on the job. One moment they seem hopeful and in love, the next she’s being ghosted. Baffled, she goes looking for him in the port. Violetta, the owner of the cantine is a hard worker nostalgic of a life she never had. She employs her niece, a radical pacifist whose life strategy is to lay low. Intersecting, their stories create a parallax view of heartbreak and desire, disappointment and hope.

Credits

Cast:

Artemis Chalkidou

Estelle Widmaier

Jesus Fernandez de Castro

Grego Belau

Leo Da Silva

Ezra Luke

Marie Tragousti

Script:

Xandra Popescu

Camera:

Jonathan Steil

Editing:

Xandra Popescu

Lorna Höffler Steffen

Producer:

Janna Fodor

Sabrina Holzapfel

Film info

Direction:

Xandra Popescu

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Ger­many

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2023

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Spanish, French, German and Greek

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

20 min