As part of FILM OHNE GRENZEN Youth Programmes on the festival Friday, we are once again inviting students from the Oder-Spree district to film screenings followed by discussion sessions.

in a Workshop entitled „We are the jury“ have students of the Maxim Gorki Secondary School Bad Saarow, accompanied and guided by the Filmmakers Anna Faroqhi and Haim Peretz, watched and discussed films together for a week. In the process, the young people not only trained their perception and their ability to describe what they saw. They also acted as a jury and decided which of the films would be shown at the school cinema of FILM OHNE GRENZEN 2022 on the festival Friday.

Friday, September 2, 2022 FILM OHNE GRENZEN School cinema in the Kulturscheune:

9:30 AM GIRL GANG  (Germany 2022), directed by Susanne Regina Meures

Advance screening!

Fourteen-year-old Leonie from Berlin is conquering the world as a teen influencer. She enjoys putting herself in the spotlight with short Instagram stories and being her own director. Millions of followers worship her, and companies shower her with their products. When Leonies parents recognize the enormous economic potential in their daughter, they make the quick decision to take over her management. Leonie is supposed to have a better life than they did. But Leonie's constant self-absorption and the relentless pressure to produce content have a dark side that adrenaline, fame, and free sneakers cannot make up for.

Director Susanne Regina Meures„ documentary “Girl Gang" lets us observe Leonie’s life, which consists of dreams and illusions, excessive control, and the search for an impossible freedom, with a mix of fascination and horror.

Rated G

12:00 PM INTO THE ICE (Austria, Germany, and Switzerland 2022), directed by Katharina Weingartner

Advance screening!

In one of the most extreme landscapes on Earth, ice researchers risk their lives to understand climate change. Because they cannot collect all data with satellites, they descend into pure ice abysses over 150 meters deep. Danish documentary filmmaker Lars Ostenfeld tells their story with incredible suspense and spectacular imagery.

In INTO THE ICE, Ostenfeld follows three of the world's leading glaciologists into the ice of Greenland. All three agree that the Greenland ice sheet is the key to understanding the scale and speed of sea-level rise. Secured only by a rope, they descend into the darkness of the ice, not knowing what awaits them there, and search for answers to questions that affect us all: How fast is the Greenland ice sheet melting? What kind of future are we heading toward as the oceans rise? What can we do about it?

Campino lends his voice to this film as a voice actor.

Rated G