Films by Stephan Bernardes

Germany 2019, 20 min
by Stephan Bernardes

The film is a portrait of a Wolfgang and his small videothek, one the last surviving ones in all of Germany. Ever since he was a child video stores have been places of community and discovery. Today he is the owner of Silvias Videoladen, his very own store. Everything looks like it did when he began to work there, with old humming lights and labyrinthic paths. Even though the business of renting films has changed dramatically, his optimism seems unbroken. A bittersweet story of a man, who cannot