Today's surprise film (sneak preview) went to Vienna. Three Muslim students wearing headscarves perform "Losing my Religion" by R. E. M. The video becomes a hit in the Kurdish community in Vienna on YOUTUBE. Soon a lot will change for the three friends...
In the Ulrich Seidl style, it gets very close to the excellent amateur actresses. Sometimes people throw up in the wastebasket. But you also learn a lot about a foreign world that lives next door, but which is only given limited attention by the majority of society. A film like this is certainly not for everyone, but the debut work by the young director Kurdwin AYUB is definitely worth seeing.
EUROPEAN FILM AWARD nominee Margarethe TIESEL, who is also known from DER GOLDENE HANDSCHUH / THE GOLDEN GLOVE (2019) and PARADIES: LIEBE (2012), is also there as the mother of one of the friends.
