A documentary film about Loitz by Paul Raatz

Unendlicher Raum tells the story of people who fill a dying city with their lives and offers a cinematic examination of the development that can be observed in many places in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany and around the world - if you just look.

Demographic change is hitting the small town of Loitz in Western Pomerania with full force. Since 1990, the once thriving community on the River Peene has lost a third of its population - by 2030 it will have lost half. The bleak exterior: empty buildings and crumbling facades, with a radical right-wing slogan here and there.
A project for the future is now set to stand in the way of the city's demise. At the heart of this project is the Berlin couple Annika and Rolando, who aim to create a space for encounters. A group of music enthusiasts from the region are also trying to see the vacancy as an opportunity and organize a festival.
Is it external impetus like this that Loitz needs? Over the course of the year, it becomes clear that these projects are only a fraction of a process that began much earlier - away from the media attention that the influx of young city dwellers brings with it.
Sound artist Peter Tucholski, for example, offers a cultural meeting place with his Ballhaus, while teenagers create their own meeting center in an old gazebo. And while pop singer René Ronell writes songs about home, love and longing in the attic, the city's lost children are drawn back to their old home.

Admission free, a donation to cover costs is requested.