Bella Palanka | Documentary | By Johanna Bentz

​This is the story of Emrah, a young man who grew up in Germany to Serbian parents. Now a convicted repeat offender, he no longer qualifies for German citizenship and has been deported to Serbia. It is a country whose language he barely speaks, whose social conventions he’s never learned.
​He lives in a run-down hotel which has been transformed into a facility to house other young adults like him, who have been expelled from Germany.
​They are left to their own devices, with no support for their re-integration.

Director JOHANNA BENTZ | Producer FLORIAN SCHEWE | Camera JULIA SCHLINGMANN | Editor TILL UFER & JOHANNA BENTZ

Supported by Crossing Borders Research Grant of the Robert Bosch Stiftung

Broadcaster 3SAT / ZDF  | FILMPAGE

Nominated for the German GRIMME-PREIS / GRIMME AWARD 2019

Catalogue FILM FESTIVAL AGENCY

Radio feature by Johanna Bentz for Deutschlandfunk Kultur:  CIVIS MEDIENPREIS 2019 

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