
Prejudice or Opportunity? When the LGBTQ+ Community Moves to the Country
Four stories track what happens when queer Germans leave cities for small towns and villages. Eric, gay and living in rural Saxony-Anhalt, organizes the region's first Pride parade despite warnings that his district is a right-wing stronghold, and the film follows the event under heavy police presence. Tina and her wife Sarah move back to Tina's home village in the Black Forest to raise a child, moving into a house with four generations of family under one roof. Christian leaves Berlin for a village in Mecklenburg to live with his fiancé Jens in a building Christian inherited, one that had housed the village's only pub until their arrival forced it to close. Joe, non-binary, deals with a hostile registry office while trying to change their legal name under Germany's Self-Determination Act, and describes a phone call with officials as one of the worst moments of their life. Interviews with each subject and their families carry the film, weighing rural hostility against unexpected acceptance.