
A poem to read when I’m gone
"Welcome to the limbo of our society"
A man, perhaps Syrian, Afghan or Kurd, flees from a refugee center at the former Berlin Tempelhof airport. From then on, he lives alone between the lockers at train stations, unobserved by passers-by, barred from life by fences. He murmurs a poem that, like an incantation for a better life, accompanies his bleak existence. Anu Pennanen makes a cautious and gentle approach to a dull reality that can only be endured thanks to the forces of poetry.
Script by Stéphane Querrec.




Film stills from A poem to read when I’m gone
Exhibitions & Festivals
KINO DER KUNST film festival Munich, Cinema Orion Helsinki
In cooperation with
AVEK / TAIKE / VISEK and Alfred Kordelin Foundation
A poem to read when I’m gone
2020 | 29 min | color | 4K | surround sound
Producer: PALO Art Productions