Conrad Winkler

Along the railroad tracks in Halle-Trotha, where city and countryside merge, people live on the outskirts of the city. Far away from the urban center, they spend their everyday lives between factories and ruins, supermarkets and wild nature. While Wolfgang is stranded on the river with his boat and has found a new home here, Wilma and Eberhard Schneider have lived on the outskirts of the city since childhood. A few houses away, a Buddhist meditates in a converted factory building. Sometimes the smell of the dog food factory is in the air and the clattering of the horse-drawn carriage echoes through the streets. "Stadtrand" tells of a place that is rarely noticed and yet everyone knows it.

Huge container ships represent the expansion of luxury in our globalized world. A luxury only made possible by a few seafarers. Many of them are from the Philippines. Being poorly paid and working around the clock, they belong to an exploitative system.

Overcrowded refugee camps, systematic human rights violations, missing future perspectives: While the Republic of Malta is closing itself off to asylum seekers, Father Dionysius Mintoff is opening the doors of his 'Peace Laboratory'. Here, the 92-year-old Franciscan friar offers a piece of normality to displaced people from all over the world.

When his grandparents have to leave their apartment to live in a care home, filmmaker Conrad Winkler starts to film the process. Separated from each other, they try adapting to their new homes, while at the same time the place, that contains all the memories of the life they shared, is taken apart. "Things of Life" shows the new paths an old love is taken to and the necessity of letting go.

Along the railroad tracks in Halle-Trotha, where city and countryside merge, people live on the outskirts of the city. Far away from the urban center, they spend their everyday lives between factories and ruins, supermarkets and wild nature. While Wolfgang is stranded on the river with his boat and has found a new home here, Wilma and Eberhard Schneider have lived on the outskirts of the city since childhood. A few houses away, a Buddhist meditates in a converted factory building. Sometimes the smell of the dog food factory is in the air and the clattering of the horse-drawn carriage echoes through the streets. "Stadtrand" tells of a place that is rarely noticed and yet everyone knows it.

Along the railroad tracks in Halle-Trotha, where city and countryside merge, people live on the outskirts of the city. Far away from the urban center, they spend their everyday lives between factories and ruins, supermarkets and wild nature. While Wolfgang is stranded on the river with his boat and has found a new home here, Wilma and Eberhard Schneider have lived on the outskirts of the city since childhood. A few houses away, a Buddhist meditates in a converted factory building. Sometimes the smell of the dog food factory is in the air and the clattering of the horse-drawn carriage echoes through the streets. "Stadtrand" tells of a place that is rarely noticed and yet everyone knows it.

Huge container ships represent the expansion of luxury in our globalized world. A luxury only made possible by a few seafarers. Many of them are from the Philippines. Being poorly paid and working around the clock, they belong to an exploitative system.

Huge container ships represent the expansion of luxury in our globalized world. A luxury only made possible by a few seafarers. Many of them are from the Philippines. Being poorly paid and working around the clock, they belong to an exploitative system.

Huge container ships represent the expansion of luxury in our globalized world. A luxury only made possible by a few seafarers. Many of them are from the Philippines. Being poorly paid and working around the clock, they belong to an exploitative system.

Overcrowded refugee camps, systematic human rights violations, missing future perspectives: While the Republic of Malta is closing itself off to asylum seekers, Father Dionysius Mintoff is opening the doors of his 'Peace Laboratory'. Here, the 92-year-old Franciscan friar offers a piece of normality to displaced people from all over the world.

Overcrowded refugee camps, systematic human rights violations, missing future perspectives: While the Republic of Malta is closing itself off to asylum seekers, Father Dionysius Mintoff is opening the doors of his 'Peace Laboratory'. Here, the 92-year-old Franciscan friar offers a piece of normality to displaced people from all over the world.

Overcrowded refugee camps, systematic human rights violations, missing future perspectives: While the Republic of Malta is closing itself off to asylum seekers, Father Dionysius Mintoff is opening the doors of his 'Peace Laboratory'. Here, the 92-year-old Franciscan friar offers a piece of normality to displaced people from all over the world.

When his grandparents have to leave their apartment to live in a care home, filmmaker Conrad Winkler starts to film the process. Separated from each other, they try adapting to their new homes, while at the same time the place, that contains all the memories of the life they shared, is taken apart. "Things of Life" shows the new paths an old love is taken to and the necessity of letting go.