PLAYGROUND

Un mon­de. BE 2021. Director: Laura Wandel. Screenplay: Laura Wandel. 72 min. Feature film. OV w/Eng. sub. and Ger. Voice-over. Suitable from age 12. Recommended from age 13.

IMPRESSIVELY FILMED AT THE EYE LEVEL OF CHILDREN, THIS DRAMA FILM IS ABOUT BULLYING IN COSMOS SCHOOL 

Nora does not like her new school. She feels like a stran­ger and is alo­ne. Even her big brot­her Abel does not offer her any sup­port eit­her. But soon fear and res­traint dis­ap­pear, as new fri­end­ships begin to form. However, some­thing is wrong with her brot­her. When she obser­ves the older stu­dents pushing Abel’s head into the toi­let, she calls for help. However, Abel won’t talk and tells Nora she should say not­hing. The situa­ti­on of the siblings seem more and more hope­l­ess in this dra­ma which tells the depres­sing sto­ry of a vic­tim of bul­ly­ing and the bru­tal con­se­quen­ces of silence and igno­rance. (SSt)