KinoTage - German Cinema Days 2026

A friendship born from anthropogenic loss of home: when the village where 11-year-old Ben and his family live has to give way to open-cast lignite mining, they move to the city. There, Ben meets Tariq, whose family has fled Syria. Though they start out as competitors, the shared experience of a new beginning soon welds them together at school as well as the football club.

 

In her visually playful and provocative science‑fiction film, Sophie Linnenbaum imagines a strictly hierarchical three‑class society on the brink of revolt. A sixteen‑year‑old  schoolgirl is abruptly displaced from her privileged world and finds herself in the slums, where she forms unexpected friendships and navigates a coming‑of‑age journey within a surreal film world that critically reflects themes of exclusion, xenophobia, and capitalist structures.
 

Caught between duty and desire, Tilda has spent years keeping her family afloat, working, studying and raising her little sister Ida, because their mother battles an alcohol addiction. When a new love and a life‑changing opportunity in Berlin beckon, she must decide what she owes to the ones she loves, and what she owes herself.