Next Monday in Munich my daughter will be seen in her first role in a movie. The premier will take place at 9 pm in the Sendlinger Tor Film Theater.

“Yung” has been nominated for awards in several categories and I am really looking forward to being there, proudly hiding in the back row.

Her film is not for the faint-hearted. It follows the lives of four young women  into the vibrant, hedonistic subculture of Berlin. The official description  runs:

“Janaina, 17, earns money by making Internet pornography. Her best friend, Emmy, 18, finds the whole city intoxicating, without realizing that she’s getting deeper and deeper into a cycle of addiction. Joy muses about love when she doesn’t happen to be selling drugs. And Abbie, 16, dreams of escaping to Los Angeles. YUNG is a roller-coaster ride through the lifestyle of the millennial generation, but it’s mainly a pure, rough, and authentic portrait of friendship.”

Knowing all the actresses and actors as well as the director makes the film even more exciting for me. Some scenes were even filmed in our apartment. It will no surprise to those who know me that the director asked me to make it more untidy for the shooting.

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The film will be showing in other cinemas around the country once the Munich Film Festival is over. For more information about the Munich Film Festival, please click here.

There is also a review from 27 June 2018 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

“I know I’ve finally become a teenager because my parents have started getting really triggered about everything.”   Ewan.