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