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Kurdwin Ayub / Austria / 2022 / 87 min / Slovene subtitles, English Subtitles, German, Kurdish

A film about young people caught between social media and self-discovery, a story of rebellious young women.

IMDb

Yesmin is a high-school student of Kurdish descent who lives with her family in Vienna. One afternoon, she jokingly makes a video with her friends Bella and Nati in which they dance to and sing “Losing My Religion” dressed in hijabs. The video goes viral on social networks – some people are decidedly against it, others are inspired. Bella and Nati are thrilled about the attention and with every day become more absorbed in Kurdish culture and community. Yesmin, on the other hand, begins to have doubts about what in this fascination is still hers. The inseparable trio thus begins to fall apart.

At this year’s Berlinale, the film received the Best First Feature Award.

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