EUdaimonía (UA) - A utopian promise of bliss

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"Eudaimonía" means bliss in Greek. Many people flocking to Europe are also hoping for a blissful life. Does Europe really represent a safe and happy future? Dea, a Georgian doctor who has been working in Saxony for a long time but still doesn't feel welcome, asks herself the same question. When Dea meets the young Georgian Erekle at the immigration office, her experiences and his hopes collide. He raves about his new life in Saxony, while she is already struggling with it. Dea has already been through countless visits to the authorities and yet the bureaucracy is constantly demanding new documents from her. She is repeatedly refused naturalisation. Erekle also quickly learns about bureaucracy. Why does she refuse him a visa without an employment contract when, conversely, his employer cannot issue him an employment contract without a visa? "Why don't you make an exception," begs Erekle. But German bureaucracy recognises no exceptions.

In her modern adaptation of Medea, writer and director Tamó Gvenetadze takes a tragicomic look at the bureaucratic hurdles that not only migrants face in the German labour market.