Regula Steiner-Tomic

The Brunners are an average German family: 46-year-old electrician Arndt, his 45-year-old wife Mai, their 14-year-old son Ben, and Mai's 18-year-old daughter Paulina, whom Arndt adopted when she was one year old. Mai has raised both children with great love. Arndt provides for the family and loves both children, even if he doesn't fully understand them. Their neighbors are a childless couple: 43-year-old self-employed lighting designer Gregor and 42-year-old Sandra, a manager at a large toy manufacturer. Their mutual friend Christoph, also 43, spends a lot of time with them, whom he considers a kind of surrogate family. This Easter, they are planning a trip together, and Christoph is taking Katharina, a student and escort, with him.

Irma and Henry live the dream of eternal love, which might end badly. A whimsical tale about old age.

Sonja has reached her limit. As a lawyer, she has been advocating for asylum seekers whose applications have been rejected. But the emotional and professional strain of this work has taken its toll—she is burned out. Now seeking a job with less responsibility, she encounters people who share their stories on camera. REMBETIKO ROAD moves between fiction and documentary, gradually painting an increasingly vivid portrait of life in Berlin - its everyday working realities and the individual’s place within the neoliberal economic system.

If you don't like the reflection. Don't look in the mirror. I don't care. A promo-film for the 240 hours performance installation at Schaubühne, Berlin.