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Life is somewhere else (2006)

Love, jealousy, hatred and death are the major themes in literature and film. But according to the director one of the most important elements of our lives is hereby largely left aside: waiting. While everything nowadays seems geared to save us as much time as possible, we still spend a considerable part of our lives simply waiting.

In the gigantic apartment block The Peperklip the director zooms in on four apartments, seemingly chosen at random, and portrays its inhabitants. Lives that due to circumstances have been put on hold. Robel, the rapper, lives with his mother and is waiting to get an apartment of his own. Meanwhile he hangs out with his friends and raps. Mark, the American painter, dreams of emigrating to Australia together with his wife and three children, but has to wait for his wife to finish her four-year-long studies.
The Russian Svetlana has already for five years been trying to find an explanation for her chronic headaches. Meanwhile her husband Viktor has been running the household and can't wait to have a normal job again. And finally Ritus, who after a separation moves in with his mother and is waiting to be allowed to see his only child.

''Life is somewhere else' is a production of Selfmade Films in coproduction with IKON. This film was made with the financial support of the Dutch Cultural Broadcasting Fund.

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