How I tried to save the little shop in our community building by galvanising my neighbours and failed
DirectorGabriele Mathes
As one of our programmers put it, “This is delightful, the most Viennese thing I can imagine.” As the title spells out, the director documents her desperate, valiant, lockdown-era efforts to help retain a small grocery business in her Gemeindebau (subsidized tenement block) and does via an accessibly personal film that tackles complex, serious subject matters with intelligence, sensitivity, great humor, and even touches of unapologetic silliness.
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