by İLKER ÇATAK

Written by Finn-Ole Heinrich, Gabriele Simon / From the novel Räuberhände by Finn-Ole Heinrich / Photography Judith Kaufmann / Editing Sascha Gerlach, Jan Ruschke / Starring Emil von Schönfels, Mekyas Mulugeta, Katharina Behrens, Nicole Marischka / Produced by Flare Film (Gabriele Simon, Martin Heisler), SWR (Jan Berning), ARTE (Barbara Häbe) and HR (Jörg Himstedt)

Germany 2021 / 90’
V.O. sub. ITA – ENG

first screening

18.11.2021

17:00

Cinema De Seta

Efebo d'Oro

Janik and Samuel, two teenagers, have just finished high school.
They know that they have to make changes
in their lives and they are willing to do so,
but their need takes different shapes for
them due to their different family backgrounds. A journey to Istanbul becomes an opportunity to recover the balance upon which their friendship has always been based.

The story is centered on the complexity of human relationships especially during the troubled transition from adolescence to adulthood.

DIRECTOR

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Ilker Çatak is a director and screen writer born in Berlin to Turkish parents, who later moved to Istanbul. In Germany he studied film and
TV direction. After the short films he made during his studies,
among which it is worth mentioning his diploma work Sadakat (2014), his feature films have received several nominations and won some prizes, such as ‘I am I was I will be’ which won the Best German Film Award in 2020.

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