BERLIN

In her graduation film at the DFFB, Irena Vrkljan paints a weathered portrait of Berlin: she has conversations at the social margins of the city, films as Wolf Biermann serenades the Wall, shows the trash of affluence at a dump in Grunewald, new housing developments on the periphery where commuters go to sleep and the student protests at the university. "Berlin is a condition", as Irena Vrkljan would later write in her autobiographical novel Schattenberlin (1990) about the city where she stayed for nearly fifty years.