COMING OF AGE STORY SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF POLITICAL TURMOIL OVER THE DISPLACEMENT OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

The nickname Beans actually stands for Tekahentahkhwa. The sheltered 12-year-old girl grows up near Quebec. Beans’ perfect world is shattered when conflicts arise between the Mohawk community and the neighboring town of Oka, which wants to construct a building on an indigenous cemetery. Peaceful protests are met with racist violence, stones and fired shots. Beans no longer understands the world. How is she supposed to deal with all this chaos? Based on her own experiences, the director tells the individual and political self-assertion of a girl who, against the backdrop of the 1990 Oka crisis, suddenly must grow up far too quickly.

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It is supposed to be the summer of their lives. 16-year-olds Sami, Joe and Leyla are inseparable. They dream of freedom, parties and their future after graduation. But reality catches up with them. Sami suffers from her strict parents, Joe needs to take constant care of her siblings and Leyla nervously starts her apprenticeship as a chef. And when a traumatic experience befalls Joe her friends are badly needed. Post-migrant Zurich is the showplace of this energetic film, which brings the turbulent emotional world of adolescence to the point. At the end of this crazy rollercoaster ride they need to ask themselves: Will their dreams withstand reality?