OSTERGARD

Film Director & Cinematographer

Being Here

Documentary

Being Here

A documentary short directed by Johannes Östergård.

Lina is almost 30 years old. She works behind the bar in one of Helsinki's coolest hangouts. But her twenties are quickly passing: late nights working, days spent partying and never finnishing her studies. In the eyes of society she's leading a life without direction or plan. She feels the pressure that something has to change in her life but just doesn't have a clue what that would be

Being Here documents the feeling of an entire generation paralyzed by having all the posibilties in the world.