Waithood

Athens 2019: 44% of youth is unemployed, a generation lost in no man’s land, wandering outside of the classroom and the labor market. Five youngsters seek entertainment in the luxurious Airbnb’s that one of them is cleaning for a meager fee. They look out over a city in turmoil, daydreaming about a world of possibilities.

Director’s bio-filmography
Louisiana Mees Fongang (1994) is a Belgian director and writer. In 2019 she graduated at the KASK School of Arts Gent with her first short film Waithood, which won the VAF-Wild Card at the Leuven International Short Film Festival. Besides studying International Politics and working as a documentary filmmaker for journalistic production house Sonderland, she is writing her first feature Rap n Race.