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May 28, 2026 WE ARE YOUNG. WE ARE STRONG.

Watch Burhan Qurbani's powerful 2014 drama at the Goethe-Institut San Francisco.

We are young. We are strong. follows the perspectives of three different characters intertwined by the historic, violent, attacks on refugees by a neo-Nazi mob at Rostock in 1992. View the film on May 28th to examine how xenophobia can push society to the brink, and how it shapes the lives caught in the crossfire.

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Image of main characters from the film, "We are young. We are strong." © UFA Fiction

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