Presented as part of GERMAN CURRENTS KINO San Diego
David Wnendt's multi-award-winning film SUN & CONCRETE is presented as part of GERMAN CURRENTS KINO San Diego, a partnership between the Goethe-Institut, emago media, and the Digital Gym Cinema.
SHOWTIMES:
Friday, May 10, 2024: 7:00 PM
Sunday, May 12, 2024: 3:00 PM
Wednesday, May 15, 2024: 1:00 PM
SUN & CONCRETE
Germany (2023) 107 min. Digital. German/English with English Subtitles
Director:David Wnendt,Screenplay:David Wnendt, Felix Lobrecht,
Cinematography: Jieun Yi, Music: Enis Rotthoff, Konstantin Scherer,
Cast: Levy Rico Arcos, Vincent Wiemer, Rafael Luis Klein-Heßling, Aaron Maldonado-Morales,Luvre47, Wael Alkhatib, Lucio101, Jörg Hartmann, Derman Eker, Leon Ullrich, Producers:Franziska Suppee, Fabian Gasmia, David Wnendt, Production Company:Seven Elephants GmbH.
It is a record-breaking hot summer in Berlin. For German teens Lukas (Arcos), Gino (Klein-Heßling), and Julius (Wiemer), life in the sprawling Gropiusstadt housing complex in Berlin’s Neukölln district is rough, to say the least. The parks stink, are overrun with drug dealers, and broken bottles are everywhere. Here, you’re either a gangster or a victim. With stress at home, no cash, and no luck with girls, the three friends are certainly no gangsters. While ditching school one day to buy weed, the boys are caught between two rival dealer-gangs who leave Lukas severely beaten and demand the boys pay 500 Euros as protection money. With no way to come up with the cash, Lukas’ new classmate Sanchez (Maldonado-Morales) proposes a heist: break into the school, steal the brand-new computers, and re-sell them. Problem solved…almost.
A German box office smash-hit, Wnendt’s (Combat Girls, Wetlands) adaptation of German stand-up comedian and best-selling author Felix Lobrecht’s novel SONNE UND BETON is a raw, often violent, and street-slang-filled portrait of friendship on the rough streets of the city – this too, is Berlin!
SELECT AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
German Film Awards 2023: (Nominated) – Best Feature, Editing, Sound, Screenplay
Festival des deutschen Films 2023: Best Film
Bavarian Film Awards 2023: Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay
Goldener Spatz 2023: Audience Award – Best Youth Film
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