Bowling's new film looks at life after the Wall
To mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, independent UK company Dog Animal Films is working again with director-screenwriter Kivmars Bowling (after Donovan Slacks) on his second feature, Afterwards. The film explores Berlin’s past and the theme of separation through the personal story of a young woman and her father, who meet again one night after 20 years without seeing each other.
Although Anna (Beate Malkus) detests her father, Volker (played by East German actor Helmuth Meier-Lautenschläger), for having abandoned his family and left the GDR for the West, an urgent need for money leads her to search desperately for him in the streets of Berlin, where he himself wanders, a homeless vagrant. A multitude of questions and a painful past resurface during their encounter.
Bowling commented: "It was important to shoot in German because Afterwards explores the human and personal consequences of German history and Berlin is at the centre of the film".
Post-production has just wrapped on the film, which will have its festival première at the start of next year.
(Translated from French)
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