Friday Film
Into the Beat – dein Herz tanzt

Fri, 16.12.2022
6:30 PM Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata

Director: Stefan Westerwelle
2020, 98 minutes

The rigorous training for a scholarship at the New York Ballet Academy is almost a matter of course for the Hamburg ballet student Katya, as she is the daughter of Victor Orlow. Orlow, a celebrated ballet dancer, has raised Katya and her younger brother Paul as a single father since the death of his wife. With only three weeks to go until the audition, the training of her dance teacher is merciless. One day while underway, Katya discovers a factory building where people are dancing – but to completely different sounds and with brash, acrobatic movements. As she immerses herself into this young and energetic hip-hop dance scene, she gains a sense of freedom and acknowledgement, and also gets to know the dancer Marlon. But the more she realises that this is her form of expression, the greater the conflict with her beloved father, who has not been able to dance on stage since an accident. The daughter feels obliged to continue the family tradition of ballet. Katya has to make a decision.

Stefan Westerwelle
Stefan Westerwelle ist 1980 in Detmold geboren. Er Studierte Film und Fernsehen an der Kunsthochschule für Medien in Köln. Seit 2006 arbeitet er als freier Drehbuchautor und Regisseur. Sein Film "Solange Du hier bist" lief 2006 in Locarno. Mit "Detlef" war er 2012 zuletzt Gast im Berlinale Panorama.

Stefan Westerwelle was born in Detmold in Germany in 1980 and studied film and television at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. He has worked as a freelance screenwriter and director since 2006. His film "Solange Du hier bist" screened at Locarno in 2006 and "Detlef" screened at the Berlinale Panorama in 2012.


For age group 18 years and above.

Friday Films are the monthly screenings of German films at the Goethe-Instiute / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata. One film is screened every third Friday of the Month from 6.30 pm in the audirtorium of the Goethe-Institut. All films are in German language with English subtitles.