Image film for the Berlin Jobcenter Always human. Yvonne shows what that means.
Yvonne depended on the Jobcenter for years, a single parent, worn down by the routine. Today she drives a night bus through Berlin. We filmed her way back into a job: no script, no voiceover, not a single statistic on screen.
A film about placement work that stays with people.
The Berlin job centers wanted to show what their placement work really looks like. The problem with films like this is almost always the same: they try to explain everything — funding programs, responsibilities, measures. Nobody watches something like that to the end.
So we didn’t explain anything. We followed two people: Yvonne, who wanted to get back into work, and her caseworker Elisabeth from the Berlin-Neukölln jobcenter. No casting, no script for the interviews. The two knew each other from real counseling sessions. We asked and listened; the story told itself.
„The Berlin Jobcenter promises: always human. Our job was to make that visible instead of just claiming it.“
Why the hardest shoot took place at night in a bus depot.
The strongest scene was shot at night at the bus depot. A Setra coach, a tight cockpit, barely any room for camera and operator. We lit the bus from outside with soft sources so Yvonne's face in the cockpit stays readable without harsh shadows, and shot the driving scenes with the gimbal from a chase vehicle. Three attempts, then the take was in the can.
The whole film follows one principle: no voiceover, no statistics, no explanatory text. Just two women who really lived through something. The editing rhythm follows the breath of the interviews, not a dramaturgy drawn up on a drawing board.
It all started with an offhand remark. “I like driving,” Yvonne said in a counseling session. In that moment, Elisabeth didn’t see a file, she saw a person. She listened and asked: what if?
“We're people, and we work with people.”
Seen in the film.
A counseling session at the Berlin-Neukölln job center, where one casual sentence changes everything. Yvonne and her case worker Elisabeth, followed documentary-style, without a script. Then the night shoot: a Setra coach in the depot, Yvonne's hands on the wheel, driving through nighttime Berlin. No voiceover, no statistics — just two women and a real story.
01 · In the consultation where it all began
02 · Two people who really know each other
03 · Night shoot at the bus depot
04 · Yvonne behind the wheel, through Berlin
What ROCC Film took care of.
Two shoot days, three locations, one film with zero voice-over narration.
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