COUCHMOVIE

COUCHMOVIE

Director: Isabel Braak
Short film | D | 2013
53 min

47th Hof International Film Festival
2013

In four episodes, the film portrays the encounters between “couch surfers” and their hosts in four different places in Europe. In Stuttgart, Swabian publisher Annette meets Pawel, a Polish happy go lucky, while in Spain, her niece Nina is expecting a big fiesta but instead comes upon a deaf old man. Meanwhile Matti, a freshly minted high school graduate, is hoping for a grand adventure in Paris, while the two Erasmus students Reka and Alma wander through Frankfurt desperately searching their hosts. They are all on a quest for adventure, something different or just an authentic travel experience and meet up with people they might otherwise never have encountered …