The Days Between

Maria Speth’s first feature, from 2001, takes place in Berlin. Lynn is twenty-two, works in a cafe, lives with her brother and has no particular aim in life, which does not appear to trouble her. Her boyfriend David is a swimmer locked into his own career and sees very little besides training. When Lynn meets Koji, a Japanese exchange student, they have no shared language and spend most of their time together saying nothing, and the closeness that forms anyway turns into something she never had with David. Speth made it as her graduation film at the Konrad Wolf academy. It won the Tiger Award at Rotterdam and the grand prize at the Créteil women’s film festival.