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HOW TO TALK TO LYDIA? HOW TO TALK TO LYDIA?

Mon 20 Jul 19:00

Art cinema Aleksandar Lifka, Subotica HOW TO TALK TO LYDIA?

01:12

Germany, Georgia 2025
Selection : New European Documentary Film
Director: Rusudan Gaprindashvili
Writer: Rusudan Gaprindashvili
Cinematography: Goga Devdariani
Editing: Derek Howard, Rusudan Gaprindashvili
Soundtrack: Hans Gralke
Sound: André Klar
Production: BLACK MARKET film production
Producer: Hans Gralke
Filmography: 2026 Second Hands 2025 How to talk to Lydia? 2024 Polychrome Fransen (short) 2022 Shards (short) 2020 Heterotopie (short)

At 24, Damian leaves his small village in Moldova, a landscape shaped by community and nature, to seek work abroad. His destination: a vast German logistics warehouse, where his every step as a “goods picker” is directed by an invisible supervisor – an artificial voice named Lydia. Inside this enormous, sterile building, towering shelves stretch endlessly in both directions, erasing any sense of individuality. Here, people, machines, and algorithms coexist on equal terms, bound together in the relentless rhythm of the global supply chain. Through Damian’s journey, the film contrasts the warmth and rootedness of rural life with the alienating precision of a postmodern workplace, asking how human stories survive in a world increasingly orchestrated by artificial intelligence. Back to...