
The Homes We Carry
The Homes We Carry
Brenda Akele Jorde
German Competition 2022
Documentary Film
Germany
2022
89 minutes
Portuguese (Portugal),
German,
English
subtitles: 
English
Credits
Brenda Akele Jorde
Florian Schewe
Miriam Henze
Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
RBB Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
Rolf Bergmann
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH
Malte Wandel
David-Simon Groß
David-Simon Groß
Lenna Bahule
Till Aldinger
Brenda Akele Jorde
André Bahule
Jakob Mäsel
Brenda Akele Jorde
Laura Espinel
Hammer and compass in Mozambique. We see a GDR flag waved at a rally in Maputo, carried by “Madgermanes”, contract workers who once toiled in eastern Germany. Some of them founded families there, like Eulidio. His daughter Sarah grows up with her mother in Berlin. The relationship with her “second home” is slow in growing, partly thanks to Luana, Sarah’s baby, whose father Eduardo is also from Mozambique.
Eulidio still remembers the Lubmin nuclear power plant. Today he fries chips in Springs, South Africa. Meanwhile, Sarah only knew her father from a photo for the longest time: rather cool-looking, wearing a cap. She met him for the first time when she was eleven and felt how comfortable she was surrounded by people whose skin is as dark as hers. As an adult woman she decides to spend some time in Mozambique – and meets Eduardo. On the flight back she’s pregnant. This documentary observation by Brenda Akele Jorde deals with Sarah’s attempt to weave together and spin out threads that were torn by the fall of communism. And it shows the challenges this brings: While Sarah is confronted with racism in Germany, in Africa she’s regarded as a German. While once her father Eulidio was expelled after the fall of the Berlin Wall, now it’s Eduardo who sees his daughter only sporadically.
Nominated for
Leipziger Ring,
VER.DI Prize for Solidarity, Humanity and Fairness,
DEFA Sponsoring Prize,
Young Eyes Film Award