A Somali wedding opens the film: celebration, music, traditional dress. But the bride waits elsewhere while men negotiate her future in the mosque. Eight years of filming within the northern German city of Bremen’s Somali community reveals what Merkel’s 2015 promise “We can do this” means when the cameras stop rolling. Directors Christine Jezior and Felicia Kret, both of whom grew up in two different cultures, document not arrival but what comes after: staying, building, becoming. Her protagonists pray by riverbanks, capture themselves on smartphones, argue over punctuality. The wedding brackets the film, and through moments of joy and doubt, the question shifts: can we—Germans, Somalis, couples, communities—create something new together? No interviews, no explanations. Just time, trust, and the fragile work of making a life.
Genre: Dokumentarfilm
Year of Production: 2026
Directors: Christine Jezior, Felicia Kret
Screenplay: Christine Jezior
Director of Photography: Bartosz Białobrzeski
Editor: Artur Jäger, Oskar Jezior
Producer: Christine Jezior
Runtime: 97 min
Language: Somali
The film was funded by Nordmedia – Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH, The Senator for Culture of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, and The Waldemar Koch Stiftung.
