Westerland (2012)

The island of Sylt in winter is a freezing cold, beautiful but desolate place. On the beach we see a young man, Jesús (Wolfram Schorlemmer), who has somehow wound up here from who knows where. Cem (Burak Yigit), who has a temporary job working at the town clerk’s office and hopes to study landscape architecture later on, comes across Jesús and it is the beginning of a laconic love story. In his film, director Tim Staffel explores what happens when someone with both feet firmly on the ground, with a family, friends and a future all mapped out, meets someone who has nothing and nobody and no longer believes in themselves. What will they make of each other? What will happen to them as a couple? How much pressure can their relationship take?