“Shall I stay or shall I go?” This question makes young people in Western Pomerania sway between departure and attachment to their homeland, pragmatism and diffuse longings. They live in a region that is disintegrating into a booming, touristy coastal strip with shiny facades and and a desolate, slowly bleeding hinterland. Max, Maria, Long and Jakob are trainees in the hotel business on the island of Usedom. MID SEASON accompanies the protagonists through their three years of apprenticeship, in the middle of which the corona crisis intrudes and confronts the young people with additional challenges in their fragile search for their own path.

In a visually staged form, the film relates the protagonists to their living environment and poses the question: where to set off into life when place and time bring with them all kinds of constraints and restrictions?

Tina Tripp studied Theatre and Film Studies in Munich and Berlin as well as Directing at Goldsmiths College, London. After engagements as assistant director to Frank Castorf and Christoph Marthaler, she worked as a director at the Theater Basel, Staatstheater Hannover and Theater Stuttgart. After her guest studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York, she made several short films. ZWISCHENSAISON is her first feature film.

Filmography (selection): 1999 BLUE BALANCES, 2006 MITTWOCH (both short films), 2022 MID SEASON