“A lone horseman arrives in a far away country, looking for a place to settle down. Clement is my older brother. He became a farmer in France, far from the suburbs of Paris where we grew up. Since then, we have each gone our own ways. I suggest to make a film together.” A documentary that would be shot as a fiction eventually becomes a fiction that presents itself as a documentary. A film project to renew a lost bond, born out of the shared dream of numerous other films, becomes a bitter-sweet portrait of a land of broken dreams, old legends and new realities.

“Mues is a film of many shadows and only few but glaring lights. It follows the transformation of an intimate place in the outskirts of Paris, home to immigrants and myths, into a prestigious real estate project. The journey of the building is mirrored in a hurtful switch from 16mm footage to a computer simulation. While mastering the risk to get lost in the jungle of voices passing the troubled spot that is a Parisian banlieue today, Daniel Nehm captures an ‘image juste’ of contemporary transformation via the act of cleansing, ignoring and the destruction of dreams.” (Patrick Holzapfel)

Athens in 2018, a generation lost in no man’s land, wandering outside of the classroom and the labor market amid a booming sharing economy and expanding gentrification. Five youngsters avoid waiting for an empty future by seeking entertainment in the luxurious Airbnb establishments that one of them is cleaning for a meager fee. On the rooftops they look out over a city in turmoil, daydreaming about a world of possibilities.