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A small town in western Germany is the last stop for 26,000 pigs per day and a temporary home for masses of Eastern European temporary workers. The workers of the largest slaughterhouse in the country are fighting for survival, while German activists who stand up for their rights, are fighting against the local authorities. At the same time, Munich high school students are working on the play "Saint Joan of the Stockyards" and trying to grasp the old text and German capitalism of our days. Interwoven with the thoughts of the young people and their examination of the text in the rehearsals, the film deals in various fragments with conditions and facets of temporary work and labour migration in Germany.

Yulia Lokshina was born 1986 in Moscow. Since 2011 she studies documentary directing at the Munich filmschool HFF München. Her documentary film and video works deal with the interference of social environments and their protagonists. Her film „Days of youth“ on a military patriotic youth camp in the east Russian periphery examines the connection of patriotism and education and was awarded the Starter film prize of the city of Munich 2017. In the framework of her involvement with the Forum of international Science at the University of Bonn she works on audio-visual projects between film and scientific research. For 2018 she was awarded the 12th media art yearly scholarship of the Kirch foundation (Munich). "Rules of the Assembly Line“, her graduation film, was awarded the prize for best documentary film at the Festival Max Ophüls Preis 2020, the „Megaherz Student Award“ at Dok.fest Munich 2020 and the “Healthy Workplaces Award” at Doclisboa 2020. Currently Yulia started an artistic PhD project on documentary adaptation at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg.