DRIFT

Two friends spend their last days together before taking different roads. One will go back home to Argentina, while the other one is setting off on a journey which starts in the Caribbean and cros- ses the Atlantic Ocean before returning to Germany. DRIFT is a poem dedicated to friendship in a world where people have grown accustomed to settling down in different countries throughout their lives, where it is common to put down roots in places miles away from one’s home- land, to finally leave everything behind: houses, streets, furniture, languages, people. Or nearly everything, because what happens when two friends drift apart under these circumstances? In her first full-length film, the German filmmaker Helena Wittman, turns the nothingness and emptiness of a journey into the immensity of the sea, a landscape which has never been barren, quite the opposite, a space of vulnerability which has always been a representation of the most deepest human passions. NURIA CUBAS