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Anna Marek is looking forward to a break in her hectic life as a midwife and single mother of two daughters: for the first time in years, she will be taking the children on vacation. But then her neighbor Lukas rings the doorbell. He asks for Anna's help. His Chilean friend Maria went into labor unexpectedly. Anna can be persuaded to go to the clinic. She helps the baby into the world, quarrels with her mother, drives to Italy with her children. But the next morning Anna wakes up in her bed in Mainz and the chaos day seems to repeat itself.
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Released
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DE
Maria
Hello explores changes in two people’s working lives: a Mexican trash picker who separates and collects recyclable materials from landfills to sell by the kilo, and a German freelance computer-animation designer working for the advertising industry in Berlin. The double interview is controlled and manipulated by a computer-generated severed hand which Maria describes as an object once discovered in the trash while working in the violent northern town of Mexicali. This CGI hand was in turn produced by Max, who was born with no arms, and sought refuge in computer-imaging as a means to operate and manipulate a digital reality.
