London, by Sebastian Brameshuber
Bobby drives back and forth on the highway that links Vienna and Salzburg to visit his friend who is in a coma. He picks up other travellers to save money on petrol including the soldier questioning what it means to fight, the supermarket trainee heading to see family, the academic looking at the history of the highway, the queer woman about to get married—different paths, different accents, different stories, most of them true. Mountains and forests rush by outside, broken up by junctions, barriers and bridges, the quality of light shifts along with the seasons. Neither a documentary, nor entirely fiction, London is a quietly political portrait of today's Europe via its in-between spaces and those passing through them.
In German with English subtitles
Running time: 120 minutes
Location
Shapeshifters Cinema, 567 5th St. Oakland, CA 94607