The Bees and the Birds

They set off with a lot of verve but the couple soon realize what a harsh reality life far from the big city has in store for them. But who is going to give up right away? An old garden is bought and turned into a community project, chickens and pigs and sheep and vegetables are purchased, and a lover shows up pretty soon. Randl's semi-documentary "search by a post-capitalist individual for meaning, using the reconstruction of an old gardening nursery as a case study - or more precisely the wishful thinking of a couple who have moved in" offers viewers space for amused self-reflection. "I like the processual narrative style and the suitably ironic tone of this film." (Sooner curator Eva Neidlinger)

Keywords

  • Eva Neidlinger
  • Made in Germany
  • Topic: No Planet B
  • Agriculture
  • family
  • food
  • relationship
  • small town

Actors

  • Bibiana Beglau
  • Leonie Minor
  • Andreas Wodraschke

Director

  • Lola Randl

Documentary, Independent


1h 32min


6 FSK

DE

Germany
2018
From crowded Berlin to the Uckermark: A family documents the self-experiment on the "post-capitalist individual" itself.

From crowded Berlin to the Uckermark: A family documents the self-experiment on the "post-capitalist individual" itself.


They set off with a lot of verve but the couple soon realize what a harsh reality life far from the big city has in store for them. But who is going to give up right away? An old garden is bought and turned into a community project, chickens and pigs and sheep and vegetables are purchased, and a lover shows up pretty soon.


Randl's semi-documentary "search by a post-capitalist individual for meaning, using the reconstruction of an old gardening nursery as a case study - or more precisely the wishful thinking of a couple who have moved in" offers viewers space for amused self-reflection.


"I like the processual narrative style and the suitably ironic tone of this film." (Sooner curator Eva Neidlinger)

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