Ute Badura:

An uns ist alles besonders - Eine Schulklasse in Schlesien
A student film project in Opole (Poland) supervised by Ute Badura

What is special about us? Where do we want to live? What is important to us? Who are we? What do we dream of? Where do we belong?
These are the questions addressed by sixteen students of a bilingual grammar school in Opole. Aged between 17 and 18, they graduated from high school in summer 2005.
They lived in Silesia in the villages surrounding Opole, a region that was part of Germany before 1945. Most of them came from families of German ancestry. Some learned German from their grandparents, but all of them spoke Polish or Silesian with their classmates. They hold both Polish and German passports, which gave them the option to study, work, and live in the "rich" west - an option that made it no easier to answer the question "How do I want to live?"

49 minutes, color, German with Polish subtitles, Badura Film 2004