New Talent
Feature Film
Workshop project

Sonne

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.

Data

Category: New Talent, Feature Film, Workshop project
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: DCP, 110 Min
Release: 09.09.2022
Distribution: Stadtkino Filmverleih und Kinobetriebs Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Admissions: 6.757
Funding Film Institute: 588.816 €
Share of total production costs: 40 %
Television investment: 363.515 €
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 28.10.2024
Viewers: 55.000
Film location: Vienna
Shooting time: February - October 2020
Days of shooting: 35
Completion: Fall 2021
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien

Credits

Production: Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH, Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion GmbH
Producer: Ulrich Seidl
Director: Kurdwin Ayub
Script: Kurdwin Ayub
DOP: Enzo Brandner
Editor: Roland Stöttinger
Sound engineer: David Almeida-Ribeiro
Sound design: Matz Müller
Costume design: Carola Pizzini
Set design: Julia Libiseller
Cast: Melina Benli, Law Wallner, Maya Wopienka
Production manager: Steven Swirko
German Title: SONNE
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)