Arisha the Bear and the Stone Ring

The bear leaves Berlin It is fed up with its city On the way two Russian ladies Anna and her daughter Arisha hire him as a driver They are joined by a Santa Claus who despises Christmas and a Vietnamese family who are on their way to the sea They sing a song together The Weeping Song by Nick Cave And they are out to find a stone ring that is buried on the beach The film was commissioned by a Japanese car museum There you could see the film with six smells sitting on car seats that would tilt in corners and shake on cobble stone pavement This small film saved a big ones life FARAWAY SO CLOSE could not have been finished for financial reasons if this opportunity to make a short film with the same team had not arisen That is how we financed the last week of shooting FARAWAY SO CLOSE