Welded Together

On her 22nd birthday, Katya lights the candles on her cake alone, nobody is there to celebrate with her. She has recently moved in with her mother. Abandoned as a child, Katya grew up without her mother, who lost custody because of her alcohol addiction. Now Katya frequently takes care of her little sister Amina while her mother is nowhere to be found. She always returns with professions of guilt and promises to do better. Katya finds support in her friend Tanya. And she finds recognition in her job as a welder, for which she has a particular talent. Anastasiya Miroshnichenko portrays a young woman who clings to the idea of a family that can be put back together, even though there is a lot of evidence to the contrary. (Carolin Weidner, DOK Leipzig)