Review: Sonne – Cineuropa

Austrian-Kurdish film-maker Kurdwin Ayubwhose background also includes performance and video art, made her feature film debut this year Berlinale Strand encounters with the sun [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], a lively tale about coming of age that focuses on a teenage girl who tests the limits of her Muslim identity. Ayoub, who portrays a character nearly ten years younger than her, shares insights into cultural taboos and the different ways in which the traditional family unit—as opposed to society as a whole—can handle opposing and non-conforming situations. The entire movie was produced by Ulrich Seidlfirm, and shares his urgency to consider difficult subjects in the eye, if not certainly his strict formalities.

In any movie so far, has an embarrassing or provocative post not gone viral on social media, and instead flopped? Limited engagement, ‘likes’ and shares in single numbers are arguably more true in our experience with these platforms. Either way, we have an inciting incident that has become familiar in films of the genre, where the main character Yesmin (Melina Benelli) and her two non-Muslim companions have a real TikTok “sesh”, and they pan around the smartphone’s tiny viewfinder; One of their songs, a veiled lip clip from REM’s Losing My Religion-powered mandolin hit, went viral, and won them some kind of national fame. The local media soon invited her to portions of the interviews, as if her poor father had exposed a BBC interview on North Korean affairs to a hilarious ambush by his children.

The trio, which added to Yesmin’s growing unease, also performed at events for Vienna’s Kurdish expat community, including a traditional wedding. Job effectively shows how this began to annoy Yesmin in an existential way, while friends Bella (Lou Wallner(and natty)Maya WobinkaSee it as a lark for cultural tourism. But it is interesting for stories of this kind, that we did not indulge in the idea of ​​proper practice for Muslim girls; Instead, Yasmin faces a more open manner due to her debt to her heritage, as her parents are still traumatized by their migration from Iraqi Kurdistan to mainland Europe.

Yesmin excels at school, with her potential as she leaves home to make it all happen. In contrast, her brother Karim (Karim Dogan) is a tea track, where he falls into a crowd that his parents don’t approve of, and fails classes. His use of his social media – along with his use of the masculine and juvenile form – brings a welcome shake-up factor to the plot because after spotting a disturbing Instagram post, his family then has to deal with Austrian law enforcement. They have so far avoided in their new home.

Still, there is something frustrating about it the sunGiven the importance of its issues. There is a dawning feeling of teenage drama, almost reminiscent of skins, an iconic British youth series of the 2000s, which makes it less appealing to older viewers looking for more complex insights. Using TikTok images and group chat feeds looks very original, sometimes with a quick sense of comic timing, yet the “real world” sequences are flatter by comparison. Job would have been bolder in this sense, as the ubiquity of these platforms arguably created another equally “real” world above ours, primed for onscreen excellence.

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