Sonne

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Sonne

2022

1h 27m

Drama

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Three teenage girls from Vienna twerk in hijab and sing a pop song. A YouTube video of it makes them famous overnight, especially among Kurdish Muslims. Yesmin, the only one of the friends who is Kurdish herself, begins to distance herself more and more from her culture. Nati and Bella, on the other hand, seem fascinated by a world that is strange to them. When the girls meet two young Kurdish patriots, the situation threatens to escalate. A film about young people caught between social media and self-discovery, a story of rebellious young women.

Guillem Martinez Oya

Cinematismo

03/09/2023

3/5

Between the old and the new, three friends try to find their own identity in a Social network society driven. [Full review in Spanish]

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Carlos Losilla

Caimán Cuadernos de Cine

11/08/2022

An even more conservative film than those social models it tries to question. [Full review in Spanish]

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David Walsh

World Socialist Web Site

05/22/2022

Sonne is lively and often amusing, the girls are energetic and irrepressible, irreverent.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

04/04/2022

3/5

Although online controversy becomes the familiar catalyst pushing its lead character towards an epiphany, Ayub focuses on the intimacy of alienation in stark contrast to the usual formula administered in coming of age dramas.

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Joseph Fahim

Middle East Eye

03/01/2022

Avoiding cliches surrounding Middle Eastern youth in Europe, Sonne is a rich, multilayered study of teens torn between a confusing reality and an ill-defined virtual existence.

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Jay Weissberg

The Film Verdict

02/26/2022

Produced by Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion and filmed with a natural grunge aesthetic that feels very Austrian indeed, Sonne is an updated take on the first generation immigrant struggle told by a woman filmmaker who knows what shes talking about.

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Synopsis

Three teenage girls from Vienna twerk in hijab and sing a pop song. A YouTube video of it makes them famous overnight, especially among Kurdish Muslims. Yesmin, the only one of the friends who is Kurdish herself, begins to distance herself more and more from her culture. Nati and Bella, on the other hand, seem fascinated by a world that is strange to them. When the girls meet two young Kurdish patriots, the situation threatens to escalate. A film about young people caught between social media and self-discovery, a story of rebellious young women.

Director: Kurdwin Ayub
Producer: Georg Aschauer, Veronika Franz, Ulrich Seidl
Screenwriter: Kurdwin Ayub, Kurdwin Ayub
Production Co: Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH
Genre: Drama
Original Language: German
Runtime: 1h 27m