How Long Will You Stay

Synopsis

In their short, Arnit Likaj and Jasmin Rai explore their feelings and thoughts about what it is like to be caught in between two cultures. They have a migrant background and do not feel like they belong completely in either Germany or their parents' home country. They work with self-written and self-spoken texts in their native languages, while the production process in a potato farm is shown.

Director Biography

Jasmin Singh Rai, born on 08.08.2001 in India, is a student of Film & Media Arts at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences. She came to Germany shortly after birth, where she attended primary and secondary school. 

Arnit Likaj was born in Bremen on 18 June 2003. His parents are originally from Kosovo, as they had to flee to Germany at the end of the 1990s because of the war. As a result, he grew up with Albanian culture, which plays a big part in his identity, and can speak albanian fluently.