A FAIRYTALE-LIKE SOCIAL DRAMA ABOUT TWO SIBLINGS ON AN ODYSSEY

Life is like a roller-coaster ride for 15-year-old Billie and her younger brother Nico. Nothing gives them security. Of course, their father loves them but when he drinks too much, he is unpredictable. Their mother is even less reliable. But Billie and Nico do not give up their dream of a beautiful youth. They run away with the neighbor Malik, experience adventures and make friends, until reality catches up with them again. In grainy black and white, occasionally interrupted by color sequences and shot with many close-ups, US independent director Alexandre Rockwell tells the story of two siblings who must defy a life of poverty. They draw hope from the power of love and poetry.

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MICA HAS TALENT, BUT DOES THE TENNIS COURT REALLY OFFER A NEW OUTLOOK?

Mica lives with his mother and his sick father in the slums of Meknès in Morocco. At the age of ten, he must already earn money for his family. As a suitable opportunity presented itself, he was sent to Casablanca. There he works as an assistant in a tennis club frequented by the city’s upper class. It is a strange world in which Mica has to live with humiliation and contempt and soon realizes that he must take his fate into his own hands. Fleeing to Europe seems to be the only way out. Only when the former Tennis champion Sophia recognizes his talent on the tennis court, a new opportunity arises for Mica.

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