Thriller about the danger of social networks for young people.
Genre: Thriller
96 Minutes
Age rating: from 12
Germany 2016
16-year-old Lena (Emilia Schüle), creative and highly sensitive, dreams of escaping the suburbs, where nobody understands her. Spending her time assembling expressive collages and chatting on the internet, she meets a guy online. As Lena begins growing closer with her classmate Tim, a gifted graffiti-artist, she only confides in her chat buddy, whom she has never met in person. When Lena sees her best friend Nicole kissing Tim, she throws herself head-on into the social network even more. The joke among teenagers becomes a bullying excess that the adults are just as much a part of. As the facade of harmonious suburban life comes tumbling down and not only Lena’s life is at risk, each one has to question their loyalties.
Florian Gaag was born in 1971 and studied Film at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Active as a director, screenwriter, musician and producer, he is concerned with the world of youth in his movies. After focusing on the German graffiti scene in his first movie "WHOLETRAIN" (2006) he now launches the audience into the dangers of social networks and cyber mobbing with his movie "LENALOVE" (2016).
| About the film |
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| Genre |
Drama/Motion Picture/Youth |
| Country |
Germany |
| Year |
2016 |
| Director |
Florian Gaag |
| Script |
Florian Gaag |
| Actors |
Emilia Schüle (Lena), Jannik Schümann (Tim), Sina Tkotsch (Stella), Kyra Sophia Kahre (Nicole), Anna Bederke (Pia), Sandra Borgmann (Judith), Felix Knopp (Axel), Georg Böhm (Bernd), Andrea Wenzl (Claudia) |
| Runtime |
111 minutes |
| Awards |
- Label "especially worthwhile", Nomination of Jannik Schürman as "Best Junior Actor" at the Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis (2016)
- Preselection at the German film award LOLA and performance within the framework of the Berlinale 2016 |
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