A documentary by Benjamin Holz
EDDY - A Dance Between Worlds
Eddy grows up between Liberia and Lebanon, loses his father early and lives through war. As a young man he comes to Germany. Dance gives him his strength back: today he trains young people in hip-hop who became world champions in Italy in 2014.
Eddy, a dance teacher in Saxony-Anhalt and multiple-time German hip-hop champion, tells his life in his own words, calmly and without pathos. He grows up as the child of a Lebanese father and a Liberian mother. His father takes him to Lebanon, where, after his father’s death, he lives with an uncle and cousins, goes to school and, as a teenager, experiences the bombing of his village.
As a young man he leaves Lebanon and reaches Germany via several stops and Paris. Years of waiting follow, in which sport, language and hip-hop give him support. He finds work at a dance school, starts a family with his wife and fights for the right to stay. Panic attacks and a psychologist are part of his story, just like the experience of not always being welcome here.
In 2014, his dance group wins the hip-hop world championship in Italy.
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country / language
- Germany, German
- Director and editor
- Benjamin Holz
- Production
- Benjamin Holz Film
- Theatrical version
- planned 90 to 120 minutes
