
(SĆOĆCE)
SONNE
Drama | Running Time: 88 minutes
2022 / German and Kurdish dialogue
Country: Austria
Directed by: Kurdwin AyubMENA Premiere
ProducerGeorg Aschauer, Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz
CastMelina Benli, Law Wallner, Maya Wopienka
ScriptwriterKurdwin Ayub
Kurdish Austrian Yesmin (Melina Benli) isnât especially religious, but she wears a hijab in public. At home, she has no problem filming her best friends Bella (Law Wallner) and Nati (Maya Wopienka) twerking in her motherâs prayer garments for TikTok. When they suddenly go viral â with a rendition of REMâs Losing My Religion - Yesminâs habitually disagreeable mom Awini (Awini Barwari) is aghast. By contrast, her father, Omar (Omar Ayub), proudly shows the clip to all his friends. Soon the girls are being asked to perform in costume at Kurdish parties, an exotic adventure for Yesminâs friends but disquieting for Yesminâs already shaky teenage sense of self. Drawing on her own life, Kurdwin Ayub uses the melange of traditional and immigrant cultures as background to a story about the pressures of a life lived on social media. An extraordinary coming-of-age story about being a young Muslim in Europe that will make you laugh, cry and sing.