Kids Kino continues its celebration of the 2026 World Cup with a free screening of Sarah Winkenstette’s Too Far Away! Recommended for kids aged 8 and up. Please register to attend.

Dress to represent your favorite soccer team—international, local, or anything in between—and enter our free raffle for a chance to win German national team merch! In the coal and steel heartlands of Western Germany, twelve-year-old Ben’s village has been condemned, soon to be swallowed up by an open-pit mine. He and his family are forced to move. Homesick and bullied at his new school, Ben’s passion for soccer keeps him going until he encounters eleven-year-old Tariq on the pitch. He’s also a newcomer, originally from Syria, and a much better player who threatens Ben’s longed-for position as the team’s striker. What starts as jealous rivalry grows into a brotherhood, offering the boys a feeling of belonging to cling to in their unfamiliar new homes.
 
The feature debut by Winkenstette, also known for her 2024 children’s film favorite Greetings from Mars, Too Far Away is a charming comedy-drama that investigates children’s experiences of displacement, their bonding over shared passions and shared losses, and the evergreen power of working together. Too Far Away screened at the 2021 Locarno Film Festival, the 2020 New York International Children’s Film Festival, and the 2019 Zurich Film Festival, where it won the Kids’ Jury Award. It was awarded Best Children’s Film by the German Film Critics Association in 2020.

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Dir. Sarah Winkenstette
Germany, 2019
88 min.
With Yoran Leicher, Sobhi Awad, Anna König, Andreas Nickl, Julia Hirt