DANCING QUEEN

Dancing Queen. NO 2023. Director: Aurora Gossé. Screenplay: Silje Holtet. 90 Min. Feature Film. OV with German live voice-over. Suitable from age 0. Recommended from age 10.

ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE AND DANCING

It’s always the others who are cool. So far, this has­n’t bothe­red twel­ve-year-old Mina. But then she falls for her new class­ma­te Edwin, who is a popu­lar hip-hop dancer. To be clo­se to him, she joins a dance crew and from then on thinks of not­hing else. Her bud­dy Markus feels left out, her par­ents are worried, only grand­ma is thril­led: final­ly her grand­d­augh­ter is get­ting pas­sio­na­te into dancing! While the other girls and boys quick­ly get the moves, Mina’s self-doubt grows. She feels too fat, too clum­sy and, abo­ve all, too ner­dy. In a way that is both fun­ny and thoughtful, DANCING QUEEN tells the sto­ry of how Mina finds hers­elf after a few detours. (KT)