ONE IN A MILLION

One in a Million. DE 2022. Director: Joya Thome. Screenplay: Lydia Richter, Joya Thome, Philipp Wunderlich. 84 min. Documentary. OV w/sub. Suitable from age 6. Recommended from age 12.

Filmguest at the cine­ma: Actress Yara Storp on 10.10.2022 and 11.10.2022 at DFF Cinema and on 12.10.2022 at Kino im Hafen 2

TWO TEENAGERS FROM DIFFERENT WORLDS, UNITED BY SOCIAL MEDIA AND THEIR PASSION FOR GYMNASTICS 

Whitney Bjerken is mul­ti-talen­ted: a you­tuber, song­wri­ter and pro­fes­sio­nal gym­nast from the USA and has hund­reds of thousands of fol­lo­wers. One of her big­gest fans lives in Germany: the quiet but sen­si­ti­ve Yara has always loved gym­nastics all her life too. As they view the world through social media, they begin to ask them­sel­ves what they want from life. Director Joya Thome mana­ges, in an out­stan­ding way, to inter­sect the life­li­nes of the teen­agers. Connected by the glit­te­ring world of social media and their pas­si­on for gym­nastics Whitney and Yara expe­ri­ence suc­cess, lone­li­ness, friendship, first love and a queer Coming Out. (HA.)