Mid Season (2022)

Shall I stay or shall I go? This question makes young people in Western Pomerania sway between departure and attachment to their homeland, pragmatism and diffuse longings. They live in a region that is disintegrating into a booming, touristy coastal strip with shiny facades and a desolate, slowly bleeding hinterland. Max, Maria, Long and Jakob are trainees in the hotel business on the island of Usedom. Just as their place of work, the hotel, is a transitory place, so the young people are in a transitory phase of life. MID SEASON accompanies the protagonists through their three years of apprenticeship, in the middle of which the Corona crisis intrudes and confronts the young people with additional challenges in their fragile search for their own path. In a visually staged form, the film relates the protagonists to their living environment and poses the question: where to set off into life when place and time bring with them all kinds of constraints and restrictions.