Screening at the Cinema by Velotel
Targeted immigration is an attempt to get Brandenburg’s population decline under control. Hopes are also pinned on a group of teenage girls from different backgrounds who are claiming their place in the region and in society. Who am I? And who do I want to become? The girls have aspirations, dreams and wishes and are looking for ways to realise them. The filmmaker Rand Beiruty, herself at home in two cultures, empowers them. She gives the young women scope for their own experiences and, through the film, gives them the chance to discover the power behind them. The film is sensitively observed and always at eye level with the protagonists. It is a pleasure to watch the girls grow up. The film was developed as part of the Wolfgang Kohlhaase Scholarship.
Director’s biography
Rand Beiruty is a writer, director, producer and co-founder of Shaghab Films, a Jordanian production company. She studied at the Bauhaus University Weimar and then completed a practice-orientated doctorate at the Film University Babelsberg. She lives between Amman and Berlin.
Followed by a film talk with director Rand Beiruty