Kino im Foyer: Mauern aus Sand

Walls of Sand, D: Čejen Černić Čanak, Croatia/Lithuania/Slovenia 2025, 88 minutes, Croatian original version with German subtitles
Marko believes he has found his path: He is celebrated as an athlete at school, he has a stable relationship with his girlfriend and a good job is waiting for him in his father's workshop. He is someone everyone likes - and when it comes to protecting his Croatian home village from a flood, he stacks sandbags like everyone else. But then a friend from the past turns up and awakens feelings that call Marko's carefully constructed self-image into question - and the self-image of the conservative village community at the same time.

"Walls of Sand" is a melancholy story about growing up and the hopeless attempt to be the person others think you are. Director Čejen Černić Čanak stages love carefully and free of sentimentality as a force of nature that makes its way - no matter how many dams are built. An exciting, yet very unobtrusive piece of young queer cinema, timelessly beautiful.

06.06 at 9 pm, 07.06 at 7 pm and 10.06 at 8:30 pm

Headphone cinema in the foyer; tickets (8€/7€) only at the Box Office

More info: www.filmhaus-koeln.de