The Homes We Carry

Directed By Brenda Akele Jorde

THE HOMES WE CARRY is the portrait of a family torn between Germany, Mozambique, and South Africa. At the center is Sarah, an Afro-German mother, who wants her little daughter to have the relationships she lacked as a child. 

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THE HOMES WE CARRY portraits a family torn apart by the turmoil of world history between Germany, Mozambique and South Africa. At the center is Sarah, a young Afro-German mother. She wants her daughter to have the relationships she herself lacked as a child. Therefore, she travels with her to Africa, where her own father and the child's father are waiting for them. But meeting Luana's father, who suddenly has to grow up when Sarah shows up at the door with his daughter, presents both of them with great challenges. Meanwhile, Sarah's father Eulidio recalls the almost forgotten and unjust history of the Mozambican contract workers in the former GDR. In his nostalgic daydreams, he returns to the origins of his European family and their sudden separation - a fate he shares with many other German-Mozambican families.

Brenda Akele Jorde (1993, Hamburg, Germany) got interested in documentary film during her undergraduate studies (Media Studies at the Film University of Potsdam). Her final project included the short documentary film portrait VA-BENE which was screened at festivals around the world and which encouraged her to pursue a career as a documentary filmmaker. From 2018 until 2022 she studied Documentary Film Directing (MA) at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf and shot A WAY OF BREATHING (2020) in Iran and STICK OF JOY (2020) in Berlin. Her films so far deal with self empowerment through art, queerness or effects of migration for the individual. THE HOMES WE CARRY is her feature documentary film debut and her master’s film project at the University. 2023 RTL+ released the Documentary Series FAMILY OF CHOICE which Brenda directed. Brenda also works on film festivals in Berlin and as a circus pedagogue in social institutions.