“They say it will return …” The old lady sits on the ground, her gold teeth glinting, her skin weathered by the wind: “We all swam in the sea. The water receded slowly. No one believed it would vanish completely. But the sea is gone.”
Transparent plastic fish glisten in the sun. A toddler sleeps on the floor. Old fishing boats rot in the sand. Wind whistles through rusted holes. “They say our sea dried up twice before. If it returns a third time, we won’t let it go again.”
A tender portrait of a dystopia whose inhabitants mourn the loss of an ocean while holding fast to their belief that it will return one day.
Diana Naecke
Diana Naecke is a Berlin-based filmmaker, journalist, and visual artist. She studied Journalism and Theatre Studies at the University of Leipzig and works across film, radio, and theatre. Her work as a documentary filmmaker is based on long-term research and observation and focuses on character-driven narratives. AYDINLAR – WHERE THE WORLD ENDS is her third feature-length documentary film for cinema. http://www.diananaecke.de
