Re-start — The Lockdown Film

A poetic short film from the first phase of the pandemic. Two minutes forty-five between standstill and new beginning.

The film moves through an unusually quiet Germany — past empty streets, the Bundestag in Berlin, silent lakes, deserted beaches and the wind-carried expanse of the Baltic coast. Out of the absence of people, a space emerges for thought, hope and the imagination of a different future.

A cinematic look at a moment in which everything paused — and precisely because of that, something new became thinkable.

An initiative of the independent creatives of film and advertising. Directed by Florian Meimberg. Cinematography NRW segment: Max Tsui.