Creative Documentary in development. Funded by Robert Bosch Recherchestipendium.

Caribbean Coast is a film that explores the life in the tower blocks in Hong Kong. By getting to know the inhabitants and their background, it tries to understand the interdependency between the maids and their employers, and how structures of modern slavery can develop in a hypermodern place. 

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At the address "Caribbean Coast, Lantau Island, Hong Kong” one finds a property development, consisting of thirteen mint green tower blocks. Those who enter the vertical city of 18,000 habitants and take the lift to the 65th floor have a view on the disappointing coastline of the city Tung Chung. Caribbean Coast evokes a distant, dreamlike place. The name, like its inhabitants, has few roots here. It is a living embodiment of hypermodernity: luxurious and comfortable, built next to the biggest airport in the world. Here you don’t linger, you pass through.

Most of the international inhabitants work at the airport: as pilots, stewards or for the ground crew. They are travelling most of the time. When not travelling for work, they travel to visit their families in their home countries, for leisure or business reasons. Back home in the tower blocks remain the Filipino and Indonesian maids, who take care of the children of their employers.

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Regie und Buch: Eva Stotz

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Gefördert durch das Robert Bosch Recherchestipendium