Title of film : Sonne
Director Name : Kurdwin Ayub
Cast & crew :
Producer : Ulrich Seidl,Veronika Franz
Editor : Roland Stottingaer
Cast :
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 Bio : Kurdwin Ayub was born in Iraq in 1990. Currently, she works as a director, screenwriter, and video and performance artist in Vienna, Austria. Studied Painting and Animation with Christian Ludwig Attersee and Judith Eisler at the University for Applied Arts Vienna from 2008 to 2013. In 2013, Ayub was awarded the Vienna Independent Short Newcomer Prize. Her feature documentary Paradise! Paradise! – direction, screenplay, and cinematography by Ayub – won Best Camera at the Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Film, the New Waves Non-Fiction Award at the Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo, and the Carte Blanche Prize of the Duisburger Filmwoche in 2016.
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