Julian has been with his girlfriend Anabel for six months. For Valentine's Day, Julian played a prank on her that took her jealousy to the limit. Now Anabel wants revenge.
On the way home from school, Julian is on the phone with Anabel when suddenly a complete stranger interrupts him. The stranger introduces himself as Nikolai and asks Julian if he's on the phone with Anabel. Irritated, he tells Anabel that he just met a friend of hers. Reluctantly, he gives Nikolai his cell phone so that he and Anabel can talk on the phone. But Nikolai uses the opportunity to strain Julian's jealousy.
Fatima, a confident and successfully integrated young Muslim woman, and her best friends choose to wear the head scarf, the hijab, calling themselves “jabbers”. But then Fatima’s parents make her change schools. Now she is the only “jabber” and an outsider – just like Jorah, the hot-headed class troublemaker. A tentative love story begins to take shape between the two teenagers, but meets with a lot of opposition. As challenging as their differences may be, for Fatima and Jorah they are by no means insurmountable.
The Canadian author Marcus Youssef’s sensitive, unsentimental, funny story looks at a fearless girl and a controversial headdress, at domestic violence and the mechanisms of stigmatisation – and at two teenagers moving from the margins of society towards each other.
The Circle (2021)
Directed by Anjo Source
After Benjamin's girlfriend, Sally, dies of a heroin overdose, his life seems pointless. He tries to take his own life by overdosing on heroin, but fails when his best friend, Martin, arrives in time and calls the rescue service.
Martin persuades Benjamin to go into therapy. He reluctantly agrees to the proposal, but doesn't see much hope in it. Until the therapist tells him about a case he can sympathize with...