GMT+9 (2022) is a nuanced portrait of two Japanese women who want to live together as a couple in Berlin. The plot is based on a collage of interviews and stories that circulated in the authors' surroundings. The fictional setting creates conditions in which issues that would otherwise be repressed in a kind of self-censorship can be expressed relentlessly.The two main characters speak of shame, secrecy, and the impossibility of unfolding in ways they demand of themselves.
The ideal of openness unwittingly becomes a burden for the protagonists. Berlin is not the imagined place of longing, and the freedom they envisioned is in fact their entry into a fierce economy of self-assertion.The narrative is framed by monologues of the two characters, which at the same time emerge as calligraphies in space.

Cast:
Yui Fukami
Ayane Kondo
Yoriko Yanagisawa
Miyoko Ota
Tomoki Tsukada
Kenji Minami
Berkay Soykan
Zoe Marquedant
Ndjarimbi Taghan

Music:
Ayane Kondo (Hammer Dulcimer)
Kenji Minami (Drums)

Costume:
Halleluja Berlin

Team:
Kyotetsu Horikawa (Sound)
Aki Nakamura (Set Manager)
Saki Tagami (Set Manager / Set Photographer)
Pegah Keshmirshekan (Language Supervisor)
Zoe Marquedant (Language Supervisor)

Special thanks to:
Aki Nakamura, Andreas Schmelas, Ayana Mizuno, Christoph Manz, Kanae Mizobuchi, Kim Walz, Martina Kohnova, Nanako Tarui, Ndjarimbi Taghan, Pegah Keshmirshekan, Reelika Ramot, Sebastian Weise, Stefana Dilova, Stefan Kunzmann, Stefan Hoseus

Written and directed by NOM de GUERRE (Jonas Beile & Sugano Matsusaki)