Estonian premiere

Winners

Local title
Olla võitja
Original title
Sieger Sein
Director
Soleen Yusef
Country
Germany
Year
2024
Festival
24th Youth and Children's Film Festival
Programme
Youth Programme
Genre
youth film
Subject
friendship, coming of age

Inspiring film about new beginnings, friendship, teamwork, and winning.

Eleven-year-old Mona and the rest of her Kurdish family have fled Syria and ended up in Berlin. Everything is different here and Mona misses her home, her street football friends, and especially her aunt Helin. When a dedicated teacher recognises Mona’s special talent for football and selects her for the girls’ team, things don’t get easier. Mona is quickly identified as an outsider and playing in a team with the other girls turns out to be more difficult than expected. Each of them is fighting their own battles, but one thing soon becomes clear: they will only win if they all play together.

"Winners" is nominated for the European Film Academy awards in the categorie of European Young Audience Award.

Recommended age 12+

Director
Soleen Yusef
Screenwriter
Soleen Yusef
Cast
Dileyla Agirman, Andreas Döhler, Tamira Bwibo, Sherine Ciara Merai, Yumin Hannah Cho, Anisa Perk, Artemis Kostopoulou
Producer
Sonja Schmitt, Marc Schmidheiny, Christoph Daniel
Cinematographer
Stephan Burchardt
Music
Boris Rogowski, David Menke
World sales
Pluto Film
Runtime
1h 59m
Language
German
Subtitles
English
Director
Soleen Yusef

Soleen Yusef (1987) was born in Duhok, Iraq, and fled to Germany with her family at the age of nine. After graduating from high school in Berlin in 2005, she trained as a singer, actress and fashion seamstress. Yusef worked as an assistant at mîtosfilm before studying directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Her third-year film “Trattoria” premiered at the Berlinale in 2012. Her debut feature “House Without Roof” (2015) was shot in her hometown. She has since gone on to direct for Netflix, Amazon and Disney+. In 2024, her children's film “Winners” premiered at the Berlinale.

House Without Roof (2016), Germany (2019), Sam- A Saxon (2023)

Integration Foundation

Screenings

11th Nov, Monday
11:30
2nd Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening041201 / Olla võitja
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration2h 4m
14th Nov, Thursday
14:15
1st Saku hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening071102 / Olla võitja
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration2h 4m
22nd Nov, Friday
13:15
1st Saku hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening151101 / Olla võitja
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration2h 4m
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