Social media, sexual politics and the struggle of a rebellious young woman to find herself are at the heart of Kurdwin Ayub’s fiction feature debut, “Sonne,” which has its world premiere Feb. 12 in…
Social media, sexual politics and the struggle of a rebellious young woman to find herself are at the heart of Kurdwin Ayub’s fiction feature debut, “Sonne,” which has its world premiere Feb. 12 in theSet in Vienna, the story begins as three teenage girls in hijabs lip-synch and perform a provocative dance routine to a pop song. A video quickly goes viral, turning the trio into overnight sensations, especially among Kurdish Muslims.
The provocative first feature from Ayub, a writer, director and video and performance artist known for blurring the lines between fact and fiction, draws on current events, viral news stories and the filmmaker’s own experience to provide a vivid portrait of a young woman at a crossroads. “I always play with what is real and what is not real, who I am, is this story what I lived?” she says.
Her perception, however, changed as a teenager. “After a while, I realized people don’t see me like that,” she says. “It was strange because when I was in Iraq, I was not a Kurd, I was not a perfect Iraqi — I was a European girl. But when I’m here, people don’t see me as an Austrian girl.” But while the stakes are low for her two Austrian friends, who are suddenly drawn into a strange and seductive foreign world, they seem impossibly high for Yesmin, who can’t shrug off her Kurdish identity so easily. “She comes from this family, and this is the system she lives in, and it’s a struggle to leave that behind,” says Ayub., whose latest feature, “Rimini,” bows in the main competition of the Berlinale.
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