Ciné-Club: "Kingdom – Die Zeit, die zählt" ("Le Royaume")

Ciné-Club, the film series on French cinema organized by Cinema Quadrat and Institut Français Mannheim, is showing a film about growing up under special circumstances:

KINGDOM - THE TIME THAT COUNTS (LE ROYAUME)

FRA 2024. dir: Julien Colonna. D: Ghjuvanna Benedetti, Saveriu Santucci, Anthony Morganti, Andrea Cossu. 111 min. frzOmdtU. FSK: 16

Corsica, 1995: Lesia is experiencing her first summer as a teenager. But she is different: she is the daughter of a well-known mafia boss who has gone into hiding. After an attack, the clan is alarmed. The father fears the consequences of his own vendetta and wants to protect his daughter. So he has her brought to him - father and daughter, linked by a fragile relationship, on the run together.
"With this film, I want to show the machinery of criminal rule in its inevitable programmed extinction," explains Julien Colonna about his feature film debut, which depicts the innermost circles of organized crime from the perspective of a teenage girl. "Undoubtedly one of the best films of the year!" (France Television)

Introduction: Cosima Besse, Institut Français Mannheim