Director: Leonie Krippendorff
Year: 2020
Duration: 94 minutes
Category: Fiction Feature
Language: German with English subtitles

Summer of the century in Berlin-Kreuzberg. In the multicultural microcosm around the Kottbusser Tor, 14-year-old Nora makes her way through adulthood. While the heat sticks to her skin, she gets her period for the first time, discovers her love for other girls and meets the wild Romy. With it, the world suddenly seems endlessly large and full of hidden beauty, the park becomes a jungle, the outdoor pool becomes the sea. Nora learns to stand by herself and finally dares to go away from the clique of her older sister Jule. But how can Nora keep her eye on all this beauty after her heart was broken for the first time?

In her second film "Kokon", director and screenwriter Leonie Krippendorff tells an authentic Berlin coming-of-age story about burgeoning feelings, sexual awakening and the first great love in sensual images. In addition to newcomer Lena Urzendowsky, cinema star Jella Haase ("Fack ju Göhte 1-3"), who has already played the leading role in Krippendorff's award-winning feature film debut "Looping", and Lena Klenke ("How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)"). A film about wild girls who emancipate themselves from the body images of the ubiquitous social networks and only then find out who they want to be.