NDR / nordmedia, 2011, 45 minutes
To look at him, one might think that Nico would be better suited to a movie set in the big city as to this film. But the dreadlocked 25 year-old vegetable grower from Paese in Gifthorn wants to take over his mother’s farm and thereby continue a long tradition. His mother, however, is not entirely convinced that Nico has the qualities required to make him a good farmer. She is worried that her son, with his ambitious investment plans, might put the existence of the entire family at risk. After all, Grandma and Grandpa’s livelihood has to be sustained as well. They live on the farm too and help out as they can. Grandma and Grandpa are never short of a piece of good advice for Nico. For over a year, Matti Bauer follows the difficult process of handing over the farm. He audience experiences how the different generations exasperate one another and come into conflict; how they grow apart and find each other again. In his film Home is… On the Farm, Matti Bauer tells a story that has moments of both tenderness and tragic comedy, and which never fails to move us.