This Side of Heaven

Film program, US 2016, 92 min., engl. OV

By: Todd Verow

In the past years, gentrification and housing shortage have become part of our everyday life in Berlin. In other cities, though, that development is even more disastrous already. In his new feature film THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN Todd Verow uses beseeching and dazzling monochromatic images to tells us the story of aging trans woman V in New York who clings to the lease for her apartment – and at the same time struggles for her mental health and her bare existence.